Brummell Abroad by Bernard da Costa

Saturday-Night Theatre
Sat 14th Jul 1990, 19:45 on BBC Radio 4 FM
Brummell Abroad by Bernard da Costa, translated and adapted by David Buck

'Clothes make us monarchs!': the famous dandy lives out his creed of elegance in poverty-stricken exile in France.
Director Michael Fox.

Beau Brummell: Trevor Peacock
Justin: Donald Gee
Armstrong: Peter Undford
Ravissante: Madeline Smith
Mrs Daley: Auriol Smith
Chazot: Stephen Garlick
Priest: Stuart Harrison
Nun: Sue Broomfield

In the early 19th century, George "Beau" Brummell was a dandy and favourite of the Prince of Wales and famous for attention to his dress and personal hygiene. After a rift with the Prince however, and to escape his creditors, Brummell fled in 1816 to France, where he lived out his life in inceasing poverty, until he died in 1840 in a lunatic asylum. This play imagines Brummell's life in exile.