Soldier's Fortune
Young Vic (Main House), 66 The Cut, Waterloo, London 22 February to 31 March 2007
1680. Beaugard and Courtine return to London from wars abroad - empty handed
and disenchanted. Beaugard hits on a brilliant scheme to improve their fortunes.
Clarinda, unhappily married to the aged, infatuated Sir Davey Dunce, concocts
a plan to reverse her fortunes. And Sir Jolly Jumble, one of the great portraits
of wayward sexuality, sets about helping the lovers, thereby enhancing his
fortunes...
Otway's restoration comedy is brutally, hilariously modern - but the undertow
of deep sensuality suggests it is a missing link between Much Ado About Nothing
and Oscar Wilde.
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