Cirrus@Austlit

'Tracy Samantha Lord Haven is rich and smart and famous and she is getting married to George Kittredge. C.K. Dexter Haven is her ex-husband and he has invited himself to the wedding. Macaulay Corner is the joumalist C.K. Dexter Haven has brought with him to document the nuptial lead-up. As it's a comedy you can be sure it ends with a wedding ... but who will Tracy Samantha Lord Haven marry?

'The Philadelphia Story is a first-class screwball-type midsummer night's pre-marital freakout comedy. Its dialogue simmers with winks and nods and verbal parries, its characters are fabulous, its plot is a lesson in the craft, and the cast and creatives of this production are going to have a ball. Join them.

'Simon Stone and co turn a radical new lens on this effervescent Hollywood classic about love and celebrity and love and f**cking up in public and love and excess with some extra love thrown in for good measure.'

Source: Belvoir.