National Theatre Live: The Beaux' Stratagem

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.

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  Lloyd Hutchinson

  Boniface
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  Amy Morgan

  Cherry
• 
  Samuel Barnett

  Aimwell
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  Geoffrey Streatfeild

  Archer
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  Pippa Bennett-Warner

  Dorinda
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  Susannah Fielding

  Mrs. Sullen
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  Joplin Sibtain

  Gibbet
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  Pearce Quigley

  Scrub
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  Timothy Watson

  Count Bellair
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  Jamie Beamish

  Foigard