Mary Berry's Fashionable Friends

Friday, 4:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m.

Event Info

Mary Berry's Fashionable Friends
May 12, 2023
Lewis Walpole Library
154 Main Street
Farmington, CT 06032
Two fashionably dressed young women looking over a letter together sit at a table beside a window in a well-appointed room

An entirely new version of the comedy directed and abridged by Laura Engel.

The Play:

In 1801 Anne Damer, Mary Berry, and Agnes Berry embarked on a remarkable collaboration staging a performance of Berry’s comedy Fashionable Friends as an amateur theatrical production at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Damer and Berry starred in the play as the titular fashionable friends; Damer played the seductive and sly Lady Selina and Berry the sentimental and clever Mrs. Lovell.

Open To: 
Spouses and Partners, Yale Postdoctoral Trainees, undergraduate, Staff, Graduate and Professional, General Public, faculty, alumni, All Ages