Variety is the soul of pleasure
Three English cavaliers arrive in Naples looking for a good time; from the marketplace to the brothel to the convent they lie and cheat their way through the women of the city, that is until they come to learn that the women might just have something to say about it...
In August 2012 Pell Mell produced Aphra Behn's woefully underperformed masterpiece "The Rover". Spy for Charles II, political activist and one of England's first female playwrights Behn used her experience with the king's chaotic banished court in Europe to write this blackly comic vision of the Englishman abroad.
Influenced by the heady intoxication of the Italian Carnival and paintings by Van Dyck and Sir Peter Lely the production used music, dance and a bold, colourful design to bring the flashy and promiscuous world of the cavalier court to noisy, boisterous life.
A bold and beautiful production, I was swept along from the start!
*****
The Hedonist
If you know anyone afraid of Restoration theatre take them to see this!
Tottenham New Journal
London Unattached
*****
Director: Natalie York
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