THE COUNTRY WIFE – Classical Theatre Lab at Kings Road Park

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw

William Wycherley’s The Country Wife premiered in 1675. Charles II had then been on the throne for 15 years and his libertine court was in full swing. Wycherley’s play about a womanizing trickster who pretends to be a eunuch so he might go around seducing married women without provoking their husband’s suspicions fits neatly into the prevailing humor of the time. Read more…

Now running through October 23