The Circle at Peterborough Players

From the era of Downton Abbey, The Circle is a comedy of high-society intrigue. When Arnold Champion-Cheney was a boy, his mother, Lady Kitty, scandalously decamped to the Continent with her husband’s best friend. Now, decades later, the eccentric Lady Kitty and her aging paramour, Lord Porteous, return to England at the invitation of Arnold’s young wife, Elizabeth. Why is Elizabeth so fascinated by Lady Kitty? How will Arnold hold his respectable political career together with his hurricane of a mother back in the mix? The Circle chosen as one of the 100 greatest 20th century plays by Britain’s National Theatre, is the prolific Somerset Maugham’s finest work for the stage.