This boisterous comedy of mistaken identities has delighted audiences for over two centuries with its gorgeous language, elegant costumes, and outright hilarity. Sparks fly when young urbanite Charles Marlow arrives at a country estate to court Kate Hardcastle, only to take her father for an innkeeper and her for a saucy barmaid! Good-natured hijinks and grand pretensions abound in this frothy romp that pits town against country and parent against child.
 
Irish playwright Oliver Goldsmith is celebrated for reinventing the comic theater of his day. A writer and a physician, Goldsmith is best remembered for his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, and two enduring plays, She Stoops to Conquer and The Good Natur’d Man.