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Goldsmith: She Stoops To Conquer
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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She Stoops To Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith's cIassic comedy of manners, tells the cIever schemes and comic ruses that unfold one night at a country house.
An ambitious step-mother, impassioned sweethearts, a pragmatic father and a pair of star-crossed suitors are sent spinning through a hilarious comedy of errors by one of the great characters of the stage, Tony Lumpkin. ln its day, this eighteenth century masterpiece was considered so "Iow" that it might never have reached the stage. When it was finaIly produced, it enjoyed immediate and Iasting success, breaking the moId with its satiricaI swipe at polite society.
GoIdsmith made comedy funnier and more natural than the "sentimentaI" stuff of his contemporaries - yet his characters burst with warmth as weIl as great wit. Max Stafford-Clark, director, sets the story of the ultimate dysfunctionaI family in the hinterland of LichfieId. His triumphant production played to great accIaim at the NationaI Theater and on tour. |
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