Arthur W.Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray was the greatest commercial success of the Victorian theatre. The Daily Telegraph described this theatrical treasure as the play 'that changed British theatre forever'.
London, the 1860s. Rose Trelawny is the brightest young star at the Sadler's Wells Theatre. Set amongst theatrical folk and the non-theatricals they seek to please and provoke, Trelawny of the 'Wells', by Arthur Wing Pinero, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in January 1898.
A farce by the English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero. The plot concerns a respectable magistrate who finds himself caught up in a series of scandalous events that almost cause his disgrace.