Engaged
Engaged Author: W. S. Gilbert
First Performance: 1877, London
Published: 1877
Genre: Farce in 3 acts
Setting: Cottage garden near Gretna on the Scots–English border and Symperson's house in London, mid-19th c.
Cast: 5m, 5f
Maggie, a simple Scots lass, loves the roguish Angus, who boosts his income by derailing trains and exploiting delayed passengers. Two passengers arrive, Belvawney and his fiancée Belinda Treherne, who is on the run to escape marrying Major McGillicuddy. Belvawney has an income of £1,000 a year, so long as his close friend Cheviot Hill, who proposes to every woman he meets, never marries. If Cheviot marries or dies, his uncle Symperson will get the money. Cheviot and Symperson now come from the train. Symperson is keen that Cheviot should marry his daughter Minnie, but Cheviot proposes to...
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