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3 unusual facts about The Clandestine Marriage


Maria Foote

Fanny in The Clandestine Marriage, Hippolita in an alteration of the Tempest, Lady Percy in King Henry IV, Helena in the Midsummer Night's Dream, and many other parts, chiefly secondary, in old pieces and new, then followed.

Maria Gibbs

Here in late years she played parts such as Mrs. Candour and Miss Sterling in The Clandestine Marriage.

The Clandestine Marriage

In 1999, the play was made into a film directed by Christopher Miles and starred Nigel Hawthorne, Joan Collins, Timothy Spall, Emma Chambers and Tom Hollander.


Natasha Little

Film credits include The Clandestine Marriage (1999); The Criminal (1999); Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000); Greenfingers (2000); Another Life (2001); Byron (2003); Vanity Fair (2004), where she played Lady Jane Sheepshanks Crawley; The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004) and A Congregation of Ghosts 2009) among others.


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Reggie Oliver

He was a founding member of the late Sir Anthony Quayle’s Compass Theatre, and both played the part of Traverse and understudied Sir Anthony in the tour and West End run of The Clandestine Marriage in 1984.