Full cast confirmed for The Country Wife

Full cast confirmed for The Country Wife

The full cast has now been confirmed for William Wycherley's The Country Wife, which opens at the Haymarket Theatre 9 Oct 2007, following previews from 27 Sep - running to 12 jan 2008

Joining previously mentioned David Haig (Pinchwife), Patricia Hodge (Lady Fidget), Toby Stephens (Horner), Liz Crowther (Mrs Squeamish) & Fiona Glascott (Margery Pinchwife), will be Catherine Bailey (Lucy), Timothy Bateson (Boy),Tristan Beint (Dorilant), Janet Brown (Old Lady Squeamish), Nicholas Day (Sir Jasper Fidget), Elisabeth Dermot-Walsh (Ms Alithea), John Hopkins (Harcourt), David Shaw-Parker (Quack), Jo Stone-Fewings (Sparkish), and Lucy Tregear (Dainty Fidget).

It is directed by Jonathan Kent, designed by Paul Brown, lighting by Mark Henderson, and sound by Paul Groothuis.

Tells the story of Horner, a notorious and lascivious man-about-town and his ingenious scheme for the rampant and mass seduction of the women of London society. By spreading the false rumour of his own impotence, he gains the sympathy of the husbands of the town and, more importantly, free access to their wives. Meanwhile the newly-married Pinchwife desperately attempts to keep his naïve country bride from the clutches of predatory London bachelors. When she and Horner meet, events spiral out of his control...