London Assurance

Dion Boucicault, the Irish genius of London theatre in the age of Dickens, wrote the brilliantly funny London Assurance in 1841 and thereby created - in Sir Harcourt and Lady Spanker - two of the great comic roles of the English stage, played at the NT by Simon Russell Beale and Fiona Shaw. This stage revival has been brilliantly adapted by the prolific and award-winning playwright Richard Bean.


About the Author
RICHARD BEAN is a prolific playwright and former stand up comedian. His first full-length play Of Rats and Men, was mounted at the Canal Cafe Theatre in 1996 and went on to the Edinburgh Festival. He adapted it for BBC Radio where it was nominated for a Sony Award. He also won the Critics' Circle Theatre Awards 2005: Best New Play for his play Harvest.