Finborough Theatre’s MASKS AND FACES plays as part of the Kensington + Chelsea Festival

The Finborough Theatre’s brand new digital production of Charles Reade and Tom Taylor’s classic Victorian theatrical comedy, Masks and Faces, will be presented as part of the Kensington + Chelsea Festival from 19 July-16 August.

The performance will be available to watch on the Finborough Theatre YouTube channel as part of #FinboroughForFree, and showing concurrently with subtitles on Scenesaver.

Country gentleman Ernest Vane comes to London and is seduced into the celebrity lifestyle of a group of players – soon discarding his new wife for the more obvious charms of the great stage actress Peg Woffington.

In the tradition of The School for Scandal and The Rivals, Masks and Faces is both a 18th century period caper and a tribute to the backstage world of the theatre, complete with the hapless failed playwright, Triplet, and his hungry family, to real-life writer Colley Cibber, and the ghastly critics Soaper and Snarl……

Set in the 18th century, written in the 19th century, filmed in the 20th century (with an all-star cast), and now presented for the first time online, Masks and Faces is a celebration of making theatre.

Directed by Matthew Iliffe, the cast includes Matthew Ashforde as Triplet, Michael Billington as Snarl, David Boyle as Colley Cibber/Hundsdon, Madison Clare as Kitty Clive, Robyn Holdaway as Quin, Will Kerr as Ernest Vane, Alexander Knox as Pomander, Amy McAllister as Peg Woffington, Sophie Melville as Mabel Vane, Fiona Mountford as Soaper, Anne Odeke as Mrs Triplet, James Phoon as James Burdock and Malcolm Rennie as Colander.

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