The Sunday Telegraph London, October 14th, 2007
Like a robust red wine, you have to be in the mood for a bawdy farce. William Wycherley's The Country Wife, which kicks off the first season of the Haymarket Theatre Company under Jonathan Kent, dates from the late 17th century.
I am not sure that it has aged terribly well, but this unsubtle and impudent little number undoubtedly provides a great showcase for the talents of Toby Stephens. He plays Horner, a lascivious rake who persuades his physician (David Shaw-Parker) to put it about that he is impotent so that he can put it about without making any of the capital's husbands suspicious.
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