Directed by Sara Curtis
April 2019
After squandering their fortunes on food, drink and gambling, Tom Aimwell and Jack Archer, two London ‘beaux’ (gentlemen), seek refuge and rich wives in the country.
The Beaux’ Stratagem finds them down to their last few pounds in the village of Lichfield in Staffordshire. Here, their stratagem for seducing ladies of stature and wealth – and returning as quickly as possible to London, of course – runs a-foul of true love and a colourful collection of rogues, thieves, dunces and strong women who give as good as they get.