The Fantastic Follies of Mrs Rich review " high society here I come!
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMary Pix's 1700 comedy about a rich widow's wayward social ascent becomes theatrical gold in Jo Davies's scintillating productionMary Pix is hardly a name to conjure with. She was, however, sufficiently famous in her day to be rudely satirised, in a work called Female Wits, as one of a trio of emerging women dramatists. While The Fantastic Follies, first performed in 1700 as The Beau Defe…