The Second Mrs Tanqueray

“Pinero's play about 'a woman with a past' changed British theatre forever” - Daily Telegraph

Arthur W.Pinero's The Second Mrs Tanqueray was the greatest commercial success of the Victorian theatre. The Daily Telegraph described this theatrical treasure as the play 'that changed British theatre forever'.When Aubrey Tanqueray marries for the second time, he knows that his new wife, Paula, is a ‘woman with a past’. But he has no idea how that past will catch up with himin the end. More probing than Oscar Wilde, more accessible than Ibsen, Pinero’s The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893) is one of the masterpieces of the Victorian theatre: sexy, dramatic, funny and very moving.