Word: dorinda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all decent/indecent Restoration comedies, the play cuts to the chase, the chaste and the unchaste. The masquerading Master Aimwell (Ronald Pickup) pursues Dorinda (Sheila Reid) with lofty ardor. They are a fluttery pair, brimming with sentiment and much given to pledges of undying affection and confessional honesty. The masquerading servant, Archer (Robert Stephens), has the cool, calculating charm of an accomplished womanizer. The woman he now wants, Mrs. Sullen (Maggie Smith), has had but one melancholy tutor: her husband. He is an alcoholic brute who keeps her in the country when her only heaven is London. As the chase...