by William Wycherley

Wicked Pleasures

BLACKFRIARS PREMIERE.  Harry Horner has a plan. To bed as many of London’s finest lasses as possible, Harry spreads the rumor that he is ... unable to perform. Readily gaining entrance to their chambers, Harry’s plan is brilliantly discharged. Meanwhile, the charming, naive, beautiful, but ever-so-lusty country wife, Margery Pinchwife, comes to the city to seek her own pleasures. William Wycherley’s rollicking sex comedy is one of the supreme delights of the Restoration. Deemed too dirty for 18th- and 19th century audiences, The Country Wife will have Blackfriars audiences revelling in the joys of this deliciously filthy farce.