A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

3rd – 28th March 2015
Offie nominated Mercurius presents
A rollicking City Comedy
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
By Thomas Middleton
Directed by Jenny Eastop

After the rip-roaring success of Thomas Middleton's A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE (“A highly entertaining production of a timeless comedy” WhatsOnStage) Mercurius returns to The Rose with another of Middleton’s raucous comedies; this following their Offie nominated production of Moliere’s School for Wives at the White Bear (“Stage comedy par excellence” One Stop Arts **** Editor’s Choice; “Perfectly timed and delivered” The New Current *****) and the revival of their sell-out hit Anton Chekhov’s Vaudevilles at Jermyn Street Theatre (“Outstanding comic timing” One Stop Arts ****; “Glorious Madness” Play About Town; “Lively, life-affirming and laugh-out-loud funny” Remotegoat *****).
The Yellowhammers desperately push their daughter at rich Sir Walter Whorehound; who in turn is trying to offload his mistress to their son.  Meanwhile Allwit welcomes Sir Walter as his wife's lover in return for a fat paycheque.  All the while Touchwood Senior rents himself out to childless couples as a walking inseminator, threatening to disinherit Sir Walter; as his younger brother tries to steal Yellowhammer's daughter away from Sir Walter's clutches. Plots chase each other in an ever accelerating circle until chaos ensues amidst wild hilarity and lots of happy endings.

Cast – Beth Eyre, Stephen Good, Timothy Harker, Fergus Leathem, Josephine Liptrott, Richard Reed, Alana Ross, Harry Russell, Andrew Seddon.


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