The Caltech Playreaders

2025-2026: The 75th Season

Please Remember Our New Time For All Events:
Doors Open at 6:15 PM and Director's Talk Begins at 6:30 PM

 

Tuesday, May 07, 2025

6:30 pm PDT

London Assurance by Dion Boucicault

Directed and Introduced by Joshua Zeller

The foppish Sir Harcourt Courtly travels from London to Oak Hall to claim his betrothed bride, the charming young Grace Harkaway. Grace's late father left his fortune as her dowry, but only if she consents to marry Sir Harcourt, which she has done, sight unseen. But when the gleeful, horse-and-hound-loving Lady Gay Spanker joins the party, Sir Harcourt becomes too enamored with her to notice that Grace is falling in love with his son Charles, who has arrived under a false name. Myriad merry mishaps ensue in this light-hearted comedy of manners. Its success in 1841 was the first of many by the playwright Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens. Come see how his characters, in all their glorious absurdity, make this play a delight.

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