The Custom of the Country

Cast: 3f 10m

Staging: 7 interior, 2 exterior sets

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
First Staged:
Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983

The Custom of the Country

By Nicholas Wright
Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Nicholas Wright's early play The Custom of the Country transposes John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's bawdy Jacobean drama to 1890s Johannesburg.

It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1983.

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'A superbly sophisticated piece... a brilliantly studded diamond'

City Limits

Cast: 3f 10m

Staging:7 interior, 2 exterior sets

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Published in volume Nicholas Wright: Five Plays

Also by Nicholas Wright:

Nicholas Wright: Five Plays
One Fine Day
The Desert Air
Vincent in Brixton
Treetops
Mrs Klein
Rattigan's Nijinsky
The Slaves of Solitude
Thérèse Raquin
Three Sisters
Regeneration
John Gabriel Borkman
Lulu
Cressida
Naked
His Dark Materials
The Reporter
8 Hotels
Travelling Light
The Last of the Duchess

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