The Country Wife

Nov 14, 2024 7:27 PM

Author:William Wycherley,Maggie Smith,Jonathan Pryce,Full Cast

The Country Wife

Considered too obscene to be staged in its original form for nearly 200 years, William Wycherley’s bawdy comedy tells the tale of Mr Horner - a notorious rake who spreads the false rumour that he is impotent in order to gain free access to other men’s wives. When he meets the young, innocent Margery Pinchwife, the ‘country wife’ of the title, the scene is set for scandal... This sparkling 1985 BBC Radio production stars Maggie Smith as Margery Pinchwife, with an all-star cast including Jonathan Pryce, John Duttine, John Moffatt, Harriet Walter and Michael Aldridge. '... a delight for its sparking wit and the window it offers into Restoration manners and morals' - Times.

Reviews

The world's funniest travel writer turns his pen to the Eurovision Song Contest

—— Observer

We love travel humourist Tim Moore's take on the Eurovision ultra-losers

—— Sunday Times

It makes for a diverting trip and Moore's glib, easily digested comic style is well suited to these tales of defiance and depression and pride curdled with paranoia

—— Metro

Moore is a talented and very funny writer

—— Daily Telegraph

Funny and unhinged- there is something beautifully true to the Eurovision spirit about Nul Points

—— Independent

He can't help writing amusingly: it's in his DNA... a sometimes blisteringly funny account of surprisingly sad lives

—— Marcus Berkmann , Sunday Telegraph

It's inevitably Tim Moore's pseudo-forensic take on the whole madness which makes it so much fun

—— Ric Cooper , Daily Mail

There is something engaging and even informative in the book's portrait of the less glamorous side of Europe's pop musical industries

—— Irish Times

Hums and strums along genially, with a generous and unkitsch affection

—— Steven Poole , Guardian

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