The Rivals

Courted by three suitors, and with the prospect of an arranged marriage to a fourth, Lydia Languish has problems which she hopes to solve by elopement.  But as her aunt Mrs. Malaprop might have put it, there is 'infusion upon infusion' when two of the rivals prove to be one and the same person, and misunderstandings around between Sir Anthony Absolute and his son Jack, and between Jack, his friend Bob Acres and the fiery Sir Lucius O'Trigger.  The action takes place over a five-hour period in fashionable Bath, and is a model of dramatic unity.