National Theatre Live: The Beaux Stratagem

September. 24,2015      
Rating:
7.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

The ‘Beaux’: Mr Aimwell and Mr Archer, two charming, dissolute young men who have blown their fortunes in giddy London. Shamed and debt-ridden, they flee to provincial Lichfield. Their ‘Stratagem’: to marry for money. Lodged at the local inn, posing as master and servant, they encounter a teeming variety of human obstacles: a crooked landlord, a fearsome highwayman, a fervent French Count, a maid on the make, a drunken husband, a furious butler, a natural healer and a strange, turbulent priest. But their greatest obstacle is love. When the Beaux meet their match in Dorinda and Mrs Sullen they are most at risk, for in love they might be truly discovered.

Amy Morgan as  Cherry
Samuel Barnett as  Aimwell
Geoffrey Streatfeild as  Archer
Pippa Bennett-Warner as  Dorinda
Susannah Fielding as  Mrs. Sullen
Joplin Sibtain as  Gibbet
Pearce Quigley as  Scrub
Jamie Beamish as  Foigard
Richard Henders as  Mr. Sullen
Jane Booker as  Lady Bountiful

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