Getting Married

“After marrying five of your daughters,” says the greengrocer, “it would be a joke” to get nervous over the last wedding. But in the Bishop’s grand old kitchen, even the most practiced wedding-day fixer may be in for a surprise.

On a fine spring morning in Edwardian England, family and guests gather in the Norman palace of the Bishop of Chelsea. Mrs Bridgenorth keeps calm, Collins counts the napkins, and the General mourns a love refused nearly twenty years ago. Then a pamphlet on marriage law puts the bride and groom’s ceremony in doubt, and the day’s polite preparations give way to sharp questions about vows, contracts, and the rules that bind a couple. Shaw turns a wedding into a comedy of manners with a serious question at its heart: what, exactly, are they agreeing to?

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