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The pit area is occupied by an exterior location with flower beds and wheelbarrow. The surrounds suggests barns or out-buildings.\n\r\nThe production featured Denise Coffey as Kate, Nicky Henson as Marlow, Richard Pearson as Mr. Hardcastle and Gavin Reed as Tony Lumpkin. John Barber in the <i>Daily Telegraph</i> noted that ‘The audience are placed round three sides of Mr. Hardcastle’s house, so unfortunately mistaken by Young Marlow for a wayside inn. Exposed as in a goldfish bowl, the actors must be totally honest. The least exaggeration of posture or voice will betray them as fakes to youngsters seated barely a yard away.’ Generally reviews were favourable although Nicholas de Jongh in the <i>Guardian</i> (05/02/1972) considered the setting over complicated ‘ugly and unfunctional…with its cluster of exits, [which] imposes semi naturalism uneasily on the open stage.’ The Young Vic’s production that also played at Edinburgh and Aberdeen was produced by Wendy Toye with lighting by Derek J. Brown. The production opened at the Young Vic on 25/01/1972\r\n","physicalDescription":"Set design showing Mr. Hardcastle's house in the country in which the action of Oliver Goldsmith's play <i>She Stoops to Conquer</i> takes place. 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