LONDON—Mingling at intermission during the opening-night performance of the playwright’s latest work, members of high society were about to fucking snap if Clarence Wadleigh’s Haut Monde continued to make clever, lighthearted jests about their foibles, sources confirmed Wednesday. “How dare that impish scoundrel…
LONDON—Mingling at intermission during the opening-night performance of the playwright’s latest work, members of high society were about to fucking snap if Clarence Wadleigh’scontinued to make clever, lighthearted jests about their foibles, sources confirmed Wednesday.
“How dare that impish scoundrel deploy his witty barbs in ourrituals, manners, and quirks!” said Sir James Copley-Anstruther, quaffing cognac and puffing on a cigar as he spoke to a group of fellow aristocrats, all of whom were reportedly getting ready to lose their shit if the play pointedly winked at the social posturing or acquisitive habits common among their class.
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