The Rivals By Richard Brinsley Sheridan It's 1775 and the fashionable world descends on Bath, to take the waters and embroil themselves in a little romantic intrigue as three suitors fight for the hand of Miss Lydia Languish. Mrs Malaprop ...... Patricia Routledge Sir Anthony Absolute ...... Geoffrey Palmer Jack Absolute ...... Michael Maloney Lydia Languish ...... Sarah Crowe Faulkland ...... David Bamber Bob Acres ...... Peter Gunn Julia ...... Lucy Whybrow Sir Lucius O'Trigger ...... Sean Barrett Lucy ...... Clare Corbett Fag ...... Nick Fletcher David ...... Stephen Critchlow Thomas, the Coachman ...... Barrie Jaimeson Adapted and directed by David Timson. Music by Malcolm McKee.