The Complaisant Lover: A Play

A "delicious . . . champagne cocktail" of a stage comedy about a sporting British couple's marital—and extramarital—propositions (New York Herald Tribune).

Victor Rhodes, a hearty and amiable dentist in North London, has what he thinks is a happy marriage. It's stable, routine, and comfortably platonic. Five years and counting, his wife, Mary, feels the same way. That's why she's taken a secret lover—their good friend, Clive Root, an antiquarian bookseller for whom relieving complaisant husb...