About: The Man of Mode

Dorimant, who can generally charm any woman in town back to his apartment, can’t persuade Belinda into his bed until he’s promised to dump Loveit, his current mistress. Mission accomplished, he turns his sights on Harriet, who is rich enough to solve his financial problems but smart enough not to play his game.

George Etherege's glittering masterwork of Restoration comedy is set in a London obsessed with having it all, and takes a steely look at young people driven by the need to have the latest clothes, the latest gossip and each other's bodies.

The 25-strong cast includes Tom Hardy who won the Evening Standard Most Promising Newcomer Award for Festen (Almeida), In Arabia We'd All Be Kings (New Hampstead Theatre) and Blood Wedding (Royal Court); Hayley Atwell whose screen credits include The Line of Beauty and, the forthcoming, Mansfield Park; Nancy Carroll who was last seen at the National in The Voysey Inheritance and The False Servant, and Rory Kinnear who recently appeared in Southwark Fair at the National and Mary Stuart at the Donmar Warehouse.

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