THE CONSTANT WIFE

January 22–February 22, 2009 | Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage

By Somerset Maugham
Director Morris Panych

Why get mad when you can get even? In this classic comedy of marriage and revenge, the discovery of her husband’s infidelity sparks in Constance some rather unusual behaviour!

“Deliciously witty, an antecedent to the women of Desperate Housewives and Sex and the City” —Variety

“A charming, light-hearted satirical comedy, jam-packed with the wit Maugham’s works are famous for” —BBC

“Stimulating as well as enormously entertaining” —New York Daily News

“It makes you laugh, then it makes you think” —New York Magazine

Classics in Context: See it with Age of Arousal
Set 40 years after the close of Age of Arousal by Linda Griffiths, Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife imagines the life of a married middle-class woman and precisely addresses the questions raised about the future of women’s rights posed by Griffiths’s characters. Looking at these plays side by side, we can examine the challenges of women’s growing independence in the home and in society.

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