Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker. Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.
Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created - in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker - two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.
Booking From
Tuesday, 2nd March 2010
Booking Until
Thursday, 3rd June 2010
Evening
Selected dates, please check times
VENUE DETAILS
Olivier Theatre
National Theatre, Upper Ground
SE1 9PX
Transport
Take the Northern or Bakerloo line to Waterloo station. The theatre is a 10 minute walk.
Seating Plan