Contemporary playwright Amy Freed freely adapts two 1696 Restoration comedies - Colly Cibber’s Love’s Last Shift and John Vanbrugh’s sequel, The Relapse - in this rollicking, bawdy comedy.

Both of the original plays, and Freed’s imaginative adaptation, follow the adventures of the rakish John Loveless and his virtuous wife, Amanda. They are joined by a host of comic characters including Loveless’ best friend Ned Worthy and the terminally narcissistic Lord Foppington in this witty, verbally juicy script featuring classic Restoration plot twists and turns appended with a Shakespearean wrap up exalting love and licentiousness in their infinite varieties.