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    Live from London's National Theatre: LONDON ASSURANCE

    Live from London's National Theatre: LONDON ASSURANCE

    Presented by Coolidge Corner Theatre at Coolidge Corner Theatre

    July 11, 2010

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    “FIVE STARS! This is an absolute corker of a production, one that will be talked about and chuckled over with reminiscent affection for years to come.” - The Daily Telegraph

    Boston exclusive - LIVE simulcast from London's National Theatre! Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created – in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker – two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw.

    Sir Harcourt Courtly (Beale) is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, several decades his junior. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker (Shaw). Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.


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        Coolidge Corner Theatre

        290 Harvard St
        Brookline, MA 02446

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        $17 Coolidge members / $20 general admission

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        July 11, 2010

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        11am

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