“If the Victorian-era playwright Dion Boucicault had written “London Assurance” today, his hapless protagonist Sir Harcourt Courtly might have looked a bit like this: a self-obsessed, Kardashian-type fashion influencer. Likely on a fad diet that he’ll ditch by next weekend. Living in SoCal (a bougie part of it, that is). Oh, and probably sporting a couple of botched plastic surgeries to boot…
That’s what makes director Antoni Cimolino’s new production at the Festival Theatre so satisfying. Yes, it’s a farce poking fun at Victorian-era notions of romance and excess. And it’s also a social satire that skewers us.”