• April 9 - April 25
• Wednesday - Saturday 7:30pm
• Sunday Matinee 2:00pm
• Auditions:  February 22 & 23, 7pm
• Cast Requirements:  6 men, 4 women, plus extras

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1728-1774) is celebrated for reinventing the comic theater of his time. A writer and a physician, Goldsmith is best remembered for his novel, The Vicar of Wakefield, and two enduring plays, She Stoops To Conquer and The Good Natur'd Man. He is also thought to have written the classic children's tale, The History of Little Goody Two Shoes, giving the world that familiar phrase. Goldsmith earned his Bachelor of Arts in 1749 at Trinity College. He later studied medicine and worked as an apothecary's assistant. Goldsmith has the honor of being one of the two playwrights of his century whose plays are still performed to this day.

Aristocrats, commoners, and more than one case of mistaken identity highlight this boisterous comedy of manners with its hilarious take on social class, love and trickery. Sparks fly when young urbanite Charles Marlow arrives at a country estate to court the lovely Kate Hardcastle. He is threatened and uncontrollably shy around upper-class women (while, of course, completely the opposite with the "lower-class" girls). When Marlow mistakes her father for an innkeeper and her for a saucy barmaid, Kate soon realizes that she must "stoop to conquer" to woo him. Good-natured hijinks and grand pretensions abound in this frothy romp that pits town against country and parent against child.