Women Beware Women tickets now available for the Olivier Theatre

Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women is a blackly funny, fast and ferocious tragedy.

In the Italian court, where wealth secures power and power serves lust, the lascivious Duke can play wherever he chooses.

He catches the eye of another’s exquisite bride, Bianca. Can a glance secure her fate, a bribe appease her husband?

Isabella’s father would marry her off to a rich young idiot, while Hippolito has won her trust and desires her truly. But he’s her uncle.

These are her choices. If twice-widowed Livia conspires against her sex to gain a little clout, she’s only fighting to survive.

Tickets are available now for performances from the 28th April until the 8th June.

London Assurance tickets are now available for the Olivier Theatre

The brilliantly funny London Assurance was written in 1841, the age of Dickens, by the Irish genius Dion Boucicault.

Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from the epicentre of fashionable London by the promise of a rich and beautiful bride, Grace, who is several decades his junior.

Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker, wife of barmy old Mr Adolphus Spanker.

Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace.

When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.

Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw star as Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker with the legendary Richard Briers as Mr Spanker.

Tickets are available now for performances from the 3rd April until the 2nd June at the National Theatre’s Olivier Theatre.