“THE MARQUISE”
One of the most entertaining plays ever produced by the Wellington Repertory Society, ‘‘The Marquise,” will be presented at the Concert Chamber to-night for the last time. In it Noel Coward has chosen the eighteenth century court of France as a background for his witty dialogue. It is a comedy of family complications. The daughter of one nobleman and the son of his neighbour become betrothed, to the delight of their respective fathers, but not to their own delight. In fact, the girl hugs the boy in really affectionate manner only when he promises not to marry her. Later, the former mistress of the girl’s father, now rather a Tartuffe. returns and inflicts herself upon him, and it is not long before there occurs a denouement that surprises everybody and opens the wav for the girl to marry the man she loves, her father's secretary. There is ample spicy, but never indelicate, wit. The stage setting is notable for its authentic detail and the members of the cast play their parts admirably.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 154, 26 March 1938, Page 5
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