Theatre Royal Bath Productions Presents MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION At The Comedy Theatre 3/16-6/19/2010

Mrs Warren's Profession transfers to London's Comedy Theatre on 16 March for a 14 week run until 19 June 2010.

"This remains a fascinatingly bold play and the preternaturally youthful Felicity Kendal lends its still-pertinent arguments a vivaciousness that makes it utterly believable"
Mark Shenton, Sunday Express

Mrs Warren's daughter, Vivie, has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education, a generous monthly allowance and now has ambitions to go into the Law. Is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession? How will Vivie react when she finds out the awful truth about her mother's ill-gotten gains?

Shaw's ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship is one of his most witty and provocative plays. Written in 1894 but banned from performance until the racy 1920s, Mrs Warren's Profession lays bare the rampant hypocrisy of Victorian society and its constrainEd Morals. In 1905 when the production opened in New York, the entire company was arrested by the police and the New York Herald declared the play "Morally rotten. It defends immorality. It glorifies debauchery......."

Felicity Kendal is much loved for her illustrious television and stage career. She has starred in many long-running television series including The Good Life; Solo; The Mistress and Rosemary and Thyme. Her recent stage performances include Happy Days (2003), Amy's View (2006) and The Vortex (2008), all directed by Peter Hall and appeared opposite Simon Russell Beale in Charlotte Jones' Humble Boy directed by John Caird. Most recently she starred in Simon Gray's The Last Cigarette directed by Richard Eyre.

"This witty, moving and gripping production of one of Shaw's greatest plays must surely find a home in the West End" Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph

The cast also includes Mark Tandy as Praed; David Yelland as Crofts; Lucy Briggs-Owen as Vivie; Eric Carte as Reverend Samuel Gardner and Max Bennett as Frank.

Tony Award-winning director Michael Rudman has worked extensively in the West End, on Broadway and at the National Theatre. His award-winning productions include David Storey's The Changing Room and Dustin Hoffman in Death of a Salesman.

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