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Custom of the Country, The

  • Nicholas Wright
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, 19th Century
  • 10M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9781854594730

"A superbly sophisticated piece... a brilliantly studded diamond."

City Limits

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: 19th Century
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Nicholas Wright's early play The Custom of the Country transposes John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama to 1890s Johannesburg.

It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983.

REVIEWS:

"A superbly sophisticated piece... a brilliantly studded diamond."

 City Limits

Premiere Production: Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983.
  • Casting: 10M, 3F