Lettice and Lovage: A Comedy
by Peter Shaffer
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Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry, is an indefatigable but daffy enthusiast of history and the theatre. As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London's stately homes, she theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust. Neither impressed or entertained by Lettice's freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her. Not one however, to go without a show more fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventionial Lotte in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the crown. This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeus featured a triumphant award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway. show lessTags
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- LETTICE: That is not your forte, Miss Schoen -- thinking things up. At the moment you exude a certain gray integrity. Please do not try to contaminate it with color.
LOTTE: [Through gritted teeth] You are not fair. You... (show all) are not fair at all. Not at all!
LETTICE: [Rising] I have joined the ranks of the Unemployed. Fairness is not one of our salient characteristics.
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