The Man of Mode

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Play closed 19 April 2007

Olivier Theatre (National Theatre) South Bank, London

Nicholas Hytner's production of George Etherege's comedy The Man of Mode starring Tom Hardy as 'Dorimant'.

Constancy at my age! It is not a virtue in season: you might as well expect the autumn fruit to ripen in the spring.

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.

Cast includes Tom Hardy as 'Dorimant', Amber Agar as 'Harriet', Hayley Atwell as 'Belinda' and Nancy Carroll as 'Mrs. Loveit'