8 February - 23 March 1996

THE RIVALS

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sponsored by Alsop Wilkinson Solicitors

Mrs Malaprop MAUREEN LIPMAN
Sir Anthony Absolute TONY BRITTON
Jack Absolute DOMINIC ROWAN
Lydia Languish ANNABEL MULLION
Faulkland JONATHAN WEIR
Julia ROBIN WEAVER
Bob Acres JOHN THOMSON
Sir Lucius O'Trigger MICHAEL MUELLER
Fag CLIFF HOWELLS
David, Coachman JOHN CORDING
Lucy GILLIAN KEARNEY
Bell Boy JOSEPH MORTON

Director BRAHAM MURRAY
Designer RUSSELL CRAIG
Lighting MICHAEL CALF
Sound STEVE BROWN
Music CHRIS MONKS
Assistant Director MARIANNE ELLIOTT
Voice and Dialect Coach PENNY DYER

"Both fizz and wit are being liberally poured out in the Exchange's celebration of 20 years of redoubtable theatre with The Rivals, the play it opened with."
David Hughes
The Mail on Sunday

"...consistently chucklesome stuff..."
Robert Gore-Langton
The Daily Telegraph

"...a splendid rendition of Mrs Malaprop...a stage performance of commitment and exuberance...she is visually astonishing...Britton shows himself fully Lipman's equal in personal magnetism, and the pair turn many scenes into collusive double acts...'
Grevel Lindop
Times Literary Supplement