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GENEVA ENGLISH DRAMA SOCIETYPLAYREADING A BUSY DAY, by Fanny Burney 5 June 2007 A Busy Day is a love story. It is also a witty and wonderfully-observed satire on class and greed by the most popular woman writer of her time. The scene is London in the summer of 1800. An heiress returns from India, her fiancé following. She is about to tell her nouveau riche family the good news but the family of her fiancé has other ideas. Mayhem and mistaken identities cause a hugely busy day of comedy and romance in the gaming houses, parks and salons of Regency London. Fanny Burney (1752-1840), brilliant diarist and popular novelist, was an acute witness of the foibles of her time. She wrote this satiric comedy while in exile during the Napoleonic Wars (1800-1801) but never saw it performed in London. The first production was in the mid-1990s . |
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