The Magistrate

A supposedly fourteen-year-old boy sneaks port to the music teacher he hopes will wait for him to grow up—and his butler is helping.

In a respectable Bloomsbury drawing-room, Arthur Wing Pinero’s 1885 farce begins with stolen wine, scattered nuts and a piano lesson that is not going to plan. Mr. Posket is a mild London police magistrate; his wife, Agatha, has a secret about age that already weighs on her conscience, while her son Cis turns the household’s rules into opportunities for mischief. With a dinner party gathering and appearances to maintain, how long can this orderly home keep its secrets under wraps?

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