Mrs Warren's Profession
Organised by : Chichester Festival Theatre
What is Mrs Warrens profession? Mrs Warrens daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. A sensible young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education, a generous monthly allowance and now has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that her privilege and respectability has been financed from the profits of the worlds oldest profession? How will Vivie react when she finds out the startling truth about her mothers business empire and that freedom comes at an emotional price?
Shaws acid test of a mother-daughter relationship was written
in 1894 but banned for thirty years by a Lord Chamberlain who found it immoral
and improper. Mrs Warrens Profession
is a ripe attack on English hypocrisy and its fashionable morality.
Twice winner of the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Actress, Caroline Quentin made her Chichester
debut in 2018s Me and My Girl. Her
many television roles have ranged from Men
Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek
to Stephen Poliakoffs Dancing on the
Edge. Rose Quentin starred in
the horror movie York Witches Society
shortly after graduating in 2019 and recently appeared on tour in a new stage
version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.