Showing:
April 19 & 20 -8PM - Friday and Saturday nights
April 21 -2PM - Sunday Matinee
Ticket Prices $3 - $5
Lettice Duffet, expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and theatre. She lectures as a tourist guide at Fustian House - one of the least stately, least interesting of Britain's stately homes. Fustian House has so little importance, in fact, that Lettice begins to embellish the story of its historical past; and as time progresses, we see her standard lecture grow in theatricality and romance, even as it strays from the facts.
Soon, this becomes of grave concern to Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, who is not at all impressed or entertained by Lettice's uninhibited "history lessons". Lotte fires Lettice; but gradually, she becomes fascinated by Lettice's unusual past and her romantic world-view, her refusal to accept the mediocre and the second rate, into which so much of modern life has degenerated. Eventually, the two women become bosom buddies, and forge an alliance - to awaken their fellow citizens to the dreariness of their lives.
This play by the author of Equus and Amadeus was a smash hit in London and on Broadway featuring a triumphant performance by Dame Maggie Smith as the flamboyant Lettice Duffet.