Plotwell loves Susannah Townley. So does Underplot. But Doctor Fossile has secretly married her, and he is determined to keep attractive single men OUT of the house. Susannah has other plans. And when Fossile’s niece Phoebe, a dippy would-be writer, asks Plotwell to pretend he has written her play, the stage is set for jealousy, intrigue and increasingly surreal attempts at disguise…
Directed by Blanche McIntyre, this is only the second professional production of the play in nearly three centuries. It’s a fantastic chance to see a neglected classic, which enthralled London for a record-breaking run in 1717.
Blanche trained at Drama Studio London. Her directing credits include:
Wuthering Heights (Birmingham and Midlands tour), Doctor Faustus, The Devil Is An Ass,
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as Told to Carl Jung by an Inmate of Broadmoor Asylum (White Bear),
FamilyFortunes (Soho Theatre), The Revenger’s Tragedy (BAC), The Master and Margarita (Greenwich Playhouse), Cressida, The Invention of Love (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Prometheus Bound (Burton Taylor Theatre, Oxford), The Fire Raisers, Hamlet (Pilch Theatre, Oxford)
Assistant director:
Aladdin (Oxford Playhouse)
Meetings (Arcola Theatre)
Charlie and Henry (New End Theatre)
The Beggar’s Opera, The Taming Of The Shrew, The Importance of Being Earnest, Macbeth (Changeling Theatre Company tours).
Film: Lost Hearts.
Scriptwriting and libretto writing credits include: The Salamans, Nancy The Waterman.
Blanche is founder and director of Left Handed Theatre Company.