The Constant Wife

— 17th Season —

The Constant Wife
by W. Somerset Maugham
November 2023

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Bernie Wohl Center
647 Columbus Avenue
Between 91st & 92nd Street
New York, NY 10025

About The Constant Wife

Please note: the production is using the original 1927 public domain script of The Constant Wife

“Stories about culture wars, feminism, a woman’s bodily autonomy, the Equal Rights Amendment, financial empowerment, infidelity, the other woman/side piece, sisterhood and the modern woman certainly are daily news staples,” said Jeffery V. Thompson, director of the production. “But I’m not talking about the news of 2023. I am talking about the news headlines of New York City in 1920s, the period that The Constant Wife takes place!”

Moving the setting of the play to Manhattan (and adding music), this production takes place in to the fashionable Park Avenue home of Constance and John Middleton. The “happy couple” are dealing with consequences that often arise when two is company but three is a bit messy at best.

In a world where everybody has an opinion about what’s best for her, Constance proves to be more than up to all the challenges that her changing world presents—and doing it with intelligence, wit, style, and with the keen vision of the “new woman.”

This production of W. Somerset Maugham’s classic play is a journey back through time to an exciting New York City of 1926. Maugham’s comic and engaging characters find themselves where the Victorian Golden Age rubs elbows, and occasionally bumps heads, with the changing world of the new Jazz Age; where Park Avenue meets Sugar Hill; where laughter is definitely the best medicine; and where, even after one hundred years everything new is old again.

Running time: 2:30 with one intermission

CAST (In Order of Appearance)
Darrie Lawrence* | Cary Gant | Elizabeth Hayden*
Gloria Sauvé | Jenny Tucker* | Vanessa Shaw
Grant Machan* | Nick Denning* | Roumel Reaux*

*Equity Member appearing with permission of Actors’ Equity Association without benefit of an Equity contract in this Off-Off Broadway production.

— 17th Season —