Passionate havoc ensues in the city of Shower when Sir Anthony arrives to set up the marriage of his son Captain Jack Absolute towards the rich Lydia Languish. Jack and Lydia are already in love, but because of Lydia’s obsession with intimate novels, Jack provides disguised himself as an unhealthy officer called Ensign Beverly – and he is only one of Lydia’s many suitors. The Competitors was Sheridan’s initial play, which charming comedy of manners is still widely performed today.

Includes an interview with Linda Kelly, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the writer of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Lifestyle.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:

Lloyd Owen as Captain Jack Absolute

Lucy Davis as Lydia Languish

Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Malaprop

Kenneth Danziger mainly because Thomas

Neil Dickson as David

Sarah Drew mainly because Julia

Julian Holloway as Sir Lucius O’Trigger

Christopher Neame seeing that Sir Anthony Total

Moira Quirk while Lucy

Alan Shearman while Fag

Simon Templeman as Bob Acres

Matthew Wolf as Faulkland

Aimed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded at The Unseen Studios, West Hollywood this year 2010.