Mary Broome
Opening Night: August 18, 2012
Closing: October 28, 2012
Theater: Mint Theatre
Monkhouse’s biting comedy tells the story of a household turned upside down by an upstairs/downstairs liaison. Mary, the housemaid, is pregnant by Leonard, the wayward son—and everyone is eager to do the right thing—if only they knew what that was.
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September 24, 2012
Class conflict gets a workout in the Mint Theater Company’s lively, penetrating revival of “Mary Broome,” the troupe’s latest invigoration of a largely forgotten work. The play’s author, Allan Monkhouse (1858-1936), also a novelist and critic, was known for his acerbic dissections of the English bourgeoisie. “Mary Broome” — a comedy that first appeared in Manchester in 1911 and was last staged in Manhattan in 1919, at the Neighborhood Playhouse on Grand Street — cuts right to its heart.
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