Eventide Arts Presents: The Rivals

Eventide Arts Presents:

The Rivals, A Comedy Of Manners

By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Directed by Ellis Baker

October 13-30

Thursdays-Saturdays – 7:30 pm, Sundays – 2:30 pm

This comedy of silliness in love and of outrageous pretension illustrates the timelessness not only of this genre but of the human follies it so amusingly depicts. Set by Sheridan in fashionable 18^th century Bath, England, where the idle rich came to play and to “take the waters,” this play’s broad range of characters will amuse us as we recognize them in people we know. This production has been set in 1929, late in the age of the flappers and in the burgeoning years of swing, big bands, and depression-era attempts at normalcy. Fashion, attitude, and a preoccupation with pur­suits of love characterize this enduring comedy’s commen­tary on the human condition. 

Oct. 13 – 30th, Thursdays-Saturdays 7:30,

Sundays  2:30

Gertrude Lawrence Stage at the Dennis Union Church, 713 Rt. 6A, Dennis, MA

Box Office: 508-398-8588 or www.EventideArts.org