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The Rivals
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by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Directed by Scott Alan Evans
November 18, 24 & 25, 2002
Florence Gould Hall
55 East 59th Street
NYC
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| SYNOPSIS |
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False identities, romantic entanglements and hilarious complications abound in this radiant comic masterpiece by one of the most nimble-witted playwrights of the English language. First production: January 17, 1775 in Covent Garden. |
| CAST/CREW |
Margaret Nichols
Lydia Languish
Delphi Harrington
Mrs. Malaprop
James Murtaugh
Sir Anthony Absolute
Jack Koenig
Captain Jack Absolute
Rob Breckenridge
Faulkland
Gregory Salata
Sir Lucius O?Trigger
Anaar Desai-Stephens
Violin
Dawn Dunlop
Production Stage Manager
David Toser
Costume Coordinator
Mary Louise Geiger
Lighting Designer
Catherine Steindler
Assistant Director
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| PRESS |
Curtain Up
The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals is the 2nd in the TACT (The Actors Company... [ read more]
Wolf Entertainment Guide
The Actors Company Theatre (TACT), devoted to readings of rarely produced plays of literary merit... [ read more]
Curtain Up
The Rivals. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals is the 2nd in the TACT (The Actors Company... [ read more]
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| DRAMATURGY |
TACT
November, 2002 NYC
BATH: CITY OF PLEASURE
Sheridan had lived in the town of Bath and knew it well. Many of those in the first audience of The Rivals would have known it too as visitors, for, in Sheridan?s lifetime Bath was one of the most fashionable and popular resorts in England. Bath had a strong hold on the imagination of the time as a place of pleasure and romance. Young people longed to go there because of the many opportunities Bath offered for meeting members of the opposite sex - for dancing, flirting and perhaps falling in love. |
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