Kara Tointon Shines in Sharp, Stylish Revival of ‘The Constant Wife’ in Edinburgh

Kara Tointon shines in sharp, stylish revival of ‘The Constant Wife’ in Edinburgh

Theatre, The Constant Wife, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. Love and marriage initially look like old school domestic bliss in Laura Wade’s reimagining of W. Somerset Maugham’s 1926 play

The Constant Wife – Festival Theatre

On its opening night at the Festival Theatre, The Constant Wife felt less like a revival and more like a reminder of just how ahead of its time W. Somerset Maugham really was. Written in 1926, the play sits neatly in the world of drawing-room comedy, but beneath the polished dialogue and social niceties there is something far more unsettling. It asks what happens when a woman refuses to react in the way society expects. That tension is at the ce…

Review - The Constant Wife ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Kara Tointon delights as Constant Wife in cosy comedy of manners. Everyone is ‘terribly, terribly’ in this comfortable reimagining of Somerset Maugham’s comedy of manners from the RSC, which is just as it should be. Set in the Roaring Twenties, this new version of The Constant Wife, by Laura Wade, remains a period piece, set […] The post Review – The Constant Wife ⭐️⭐️⭐️ appeared first on The Edinburgh Reporter.