History
A Bold Stroke for a Wife was first performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields theatre, on February 3, 1718, where it ran six nights, which was considered a substantial success. As an ironic look at "the marriage game" written by an 18th-century male impersonator, the play subsequently was set in the androgynous cabaret world of the 1920s by Double Edge to underscore its cross-gender casting and the wry implications such an approach has in contemporary society.
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