Times

In the polished parlors of Victorian London, appearances are everything. When Percy Egerton-Bompas, a rising Member of Parliament, attempts to secure a suitable match for his daughter Beryl, he discovers that his family's carefully maintained façade conceals secrets that could destroy both his political ambitions and his daughter's happiness. As matrimonial negotiations proceed with a viscount and his titled mother, the truth creeps inexorably toward the light, threatening to expose the very rot beneath the respectability. Pinero, the master of the Victorian problem play, weaves sharp social satire with genuine emotional stakes, revealing how the pursuit of status can poison the very people it claims to protect. This is comedy with teeth: laugh at the absurdities of class anxiety, then feel the genuine panic beneath the wit.