The Lucky Chance

Everybody’s trying to get ahead. Everybody’s trying to stay afloat. In Aphra Behn’s riotous sex farce, money can always buy love – is luck enough to win it back? One way or another, someone’s getting screwed.

Two young women have married rich old men; what daring, ridiculous, and/or unethical measures will they and their boyfriends take to win each other back? Find out just how far things will go in this feminist satire on marriage, money, and misogyny.

“Head Trick Theatre showcases what it does best: staging nimble productions of classic plays that cast stark light on the slim distance between ‘then’ and ‘now’…Head Trick’s production finds its humor at every turn, whether in a well-timed gesture, pregnant pause, or outrageous sight-gag. At the same time, it’s a play about women being forced to wed men against their wills, and about the specter of marital rape that subsequently haunts them. The genius of Aphra Behn is in her ability to make us laugh — uncomfortably — at deeply troubling sexual dynamics without soothing our unease. Centuries may have passed, but the rank desires of powerful men still feel disarmingly dangerous. Hats off to Head Trick for letting us laugh at these old emperors while exposing them for what they always are: naked as the day is long.” —BroadwayWorld

Note: This play contains sexual situations and references to non-consensual sex, and is not appropriate for young children. Please contact us if you would like more information.