Pick Me Up Theatre

Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops To Conquer is as fresh, funny and joyous today as when it was first performed in 1773.

Wealthy countryman Mr Harcastle is looking forward to introducing his daughter Kate to the son of his old friend Sir Charles Marlow with a view to marriage. But mayhem ensues and mistakes multiply when his mischevious stepson Tony Lumpkin tricks young Marlow and his friend Hastings into believing Mr Hardcastle is a common innkeeper.

When Kate discovers Marlow is petrified of ladies of class but a charmer with common girls she pretends to be a barmaid and stoops to conquer his heart.

Pick Me Up staged a specially commissioned performance of She Stoops To Conquer at the Tom Stoppard Theatre in Pocklington School in August 2015.