Summary
As [Constance Middleton]'s unflappable mother, Fiona Reid sits regally on a fashionable settee dispensing caustic retorts and beautifully delivered observations on the state of marriage and male infidelity. April Banigan shines as the gleefully amoral Marie-Louise, Constance's greatest friend and betrayer. Vanessa Holmes does a fine turn as Martha, Constance's vindictive voyeur of a sister. Winnipeg's Maggie Nagle brings life to the role of Barbara Fawcett, who represents emancipated womanhood.
[Maugham]'s talky examination of the inherent corruption of marriage is also cloaked in sophisticated wit and cool reserve. There's pleasure to be had in lines like, "Frankness is the pose of the moment," "Decency died with dear Queen Victoria," and the most quoted declaration, "I may be unfaithful, but I am constant."See the full content of this document
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Maugham's the Word
Talky 1926 comedy about marriage and still relevant today
By Kevin ProkoshTHE secret at the heart of Somerset Maugham's 1926 unromantic comedy, The Constant Wife, is not t...See the full content of this document
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