Directed by Matthew Goad.
Sandy Rustin’s The Cottage is a fast-paced romantic farce filled with affairs, secrets, mistaken expectations, and increasingly outrageous complications. Set in the English countryside in 1923, the story begins when Sylvia decides that her longtime affair with Beau should finally become something more—and that it is time to tell both her husband and Beau’s wife the truth.
What follows is a whirlwind of unexpected arrivals, shocking revelations, shifting loyalties, and comic misunderstandings as everyone’s ideas about love, marriage, and fidelity are turned upside down. With sharp dialogue, physical comedy, and the spirit of a classic drawing-room farce, The Cottage keeps adding new twists just when the situation seems impossible to complicate any further.
Stylish, clever, and unapologetically funny, The Cottage is a lively comedy of manners about romance, betrayal, and what happens when people finally stop pretending everything is perfectly proper.