Hadyn Gwynne is hilariously vain and snobbish in Congreve's The Way of the World at the Donmar

Hadyn Gwynne plays Lady Wishfort in James Macdonald's revival of The Way of the World

Like the clowns in Shakespeare, restoration comedies can often prove to have passed their laugh-by date.

William Congreve’s The Way of the World (1700) has the additional drawback that its labyrinthine love plot … can leave theatregoers in an era of easy marriage and divorce feeling in need of diagrams.

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