
Lettice and Lovage
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Peter Shaffer’s brilliant comedic masterpiece 'Lettice and Lovage' turned the stage of the Ethel Barrymore Theatre into an absolute critical and commercial box-office hit in 1990, running for an astonishing 284 performances and capturing two major acting Tony Awards. The fast-paced, textually rich high comedy follows Lettice Douffet, a flamboyant, fiercely imaginative tour guide at a boring English country mansion who pathologically invents elaborate, highly exaggerated historical deceptions to enchant tourists, collapsing into farcical legal complications when a rigid bureaucrat catches her. Directed by Michael Blakemore, the historic production starred Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzack.

