The Times

T01210894538

Author

Elizabeth Griffiths (1779)

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Archive :: production:T01210894538, play:S0764804567, venue:V76

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Production details

Rehearsed Reading. Best known as a letter writer, Griffiths adapted Goldoni’s The Bourru Bienfaisant to make her play. From these Commedia dell’Arte roots she offers a sharply comedic play where the choleric old man, the lovers and the buffoons of the original are updated to offer a piece whose emphasis switches to contemporary English society and the author’s palpable dissatisfaction with it. Restoring the Repertoire