A play by Anatole de Grunwald
[Starring] Peter Cushing, Daphne Slater and Walter Fitzgerald
The action takes place in 1816 at 13 Chapel Street, Park Lane, London; at The Stein, Brighton; in the garden of John Buckland's house in Sussex; and at Aimack's Club, London
(Second performance: Thursday at 7.15)

"Nature", said George Bryan Brummell, "must be an artist of some talent to have created me". Nobody else, of course, attributed his elegance, his arrogance, and his cynicism to Nature; for the celebrated dandy was a self-made man who, for twenty years, imposed his dress, manners, and wit upon the fashionable world. Men copied his stylish extravagances, women longed for his favour and all were, in turn, delighted and wounded by his tongue. But the pace was hot and before his inevitable downfall, this play suggests, two people at least saw beyond the brittle frivolity of his character. Brummell's chivalry towards the unfashionable Georgiana and the man who loved her may have been quixotic, but did it not disclose a melancholy yearning for another mode of life?
Here, at any rate, is the suggestion, blended with scintillating glimpses of an age devoted to cultivating the highest of high life. In Regency days, above all, the style was the man-and the man was Beau Brummell. In this production, style is in the safe-keeping of Peter Cushing as Brummell and Daphne Slater as the humble girl who makes him hesitate at the height of his triumph. These two players have already shown viewers their skill in presenting another aspect of the period in Pride and Prejudice.
(Barney Keelan)