LONDON ASSURANCE
by DION BOUCICAULT Directed by RONALD EYRE
Why should anyone revive this creaky play, the hit of the London stage in 1841? In the chronology of the English comedy of manners, Anglo-Irish Dion Boucicault flounders between the astringency of Sheridan and the epigrams of Wilde. Yet he took a romantic's delight in character. London Assurance is peopled with enough eccentrics to fill the portmanteau of a Victorian novel. Welding this strength to the polished ensemble skills of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Adapter-Director Ronald Eyre has transformed an old chestnut into a parody of what is already a near parody of...
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