Performance Venue:           Hackett Hall, Draper St, Floreat, WA Ticket Prices:                      $14 adult, $12 concession (group concession available) Bookings phone number:    0415 777 173

CAST: Sir Jasper Fidget Iain Bradley Mrs Dainty Fidget Louisa Dawkins Mr. Horner Wade Ellis Lady Fidget Kerry Goode Mrs. Margery Pinchwife Chrystal de Grussa Alithea Jannelle Hammond Mr. Sparkish Anthony Harwood A Quack Kevan Hook Mr. Pinchwife Ryan Hovingh Lucy. Alithea's maid Caroline Perks Mrs. Squeamish Emma Shaw Mr. Harcourt Ted Simpson Old Lady Squeamish Claudette Ridout Dorilant Kirk Goodsell Boy Luke Heath

A Restoration Comedy  This is one of Wycherley’s wittiest plays, but the manners depicted are coarse and indecent. The plot illustrates the folly both of excessive jealousy and of excessive credulity in lovers. Mr Pinchwife, having occasion to come to London for the marriage of his sister, Alithea, brings with him his artless young country wife, and the excess of his suspicion puts ideas into her head, which are the cause of his undoing. Sparkish, who was to marry Alithea, from the opposite excess of confidence and credulity loses her at the last moment to a new wooer; while Horner, a witty young libertine, who has spread a false report about himself in order to facilitate his amours, attempts to satisfy Pinchwife of his wife’s innocence. The play was first produced in 1675 and was later adapted by Garrick as “The Country Girl”.