BBC R4 - George Farquhar's 'The Beaux' Stratagem'
Adapted by Glyn Dearman
Music by Terance Albright
Directed by Glyn Dearman
Broadcast February 19, 1990
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

Restoration comedy first performed in 1707.

Two beaux evolve strategies for each to marry a wealthy
wife. In the meantime they have insufficient money to live
the fashionable life, so they take turns at being the other's
manservant.

Cast
Gypsy - Alice Arnold
Boniface - David King
Tom Aimwell - Simon Treves
Scrub - Geoffrey Whitehead
Frank Archer - Dale Rathley
Squire Sullen - Vincent Brimble
A Countrywoman - Anna Cropper
Count Bellair - Christopher Good
Cherry, his daughter - Sue Broomfield
Mistress Sullen - Elizabeth Mansfield
Sir Charles Freeman - David Googe
Lady Bountiful - Margaret Courtney
Bagshoot - Paul Downing
Dorinda - Tara Dominic
Hounslow - Brian Miller
Foigard - John Moffat
Gibbet - Donald Gee