The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix's 1700 comedy about a rich widow's wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies's scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name to conjure with. She was, however, sufficiently famous in her day to be rudely satirised, in a work called Female Wits, as one of a trio of emerging women dramatists. While The Fantastic Follies, first performed in 1700 as The Beau Defe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM on April 4, 2018