Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT
One of author Edith Wharton’s most regarded novels, “The Age
of Innocence,” comes to Hartford Stage. Douglas McGrath adapted the story into
a play about what was called “The Gilded Age of the 1870s.”
New York City society at its most cultivated, wealthy and
rigid was an elite class of people who dreaded scandal more than disease. In
her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Wharton introduces the courtly young
gentleman lawyer Newland Archer; his traditional and demure fiancée May; and
the free-spirited Countess Olenska, who has come home from Europe, tainted by
scandal. From the moment Newland meets the Countess, he is torn between virtue
and desire, and all three are forced to make the agonizing choice, ever old and
ever new, between love and honor.
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