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Not to be confused with The Recruiting Serjeant, by Dibdin and Bickerstaff. The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury to recruit soldiers. The characters of the play are generally stock, in keeping with the genre of Restoration Comedy. Contents 1 Plot 2 Production history 3 Influences 4 References // Plot The play opens with the recruiter Captain Plume's sergeant Kite recruiting in the town of Shrewsbury. Plume arrives, in love with Sylvia, closely followed by Worthy, a local gentleman who is in love with Sylvia's cousin Melinda. Melinda was about to marry Worthy a year previously but then changed her mind after coming into an inheritance of £20,000 and is now welcoming the attentions of another recruiter, Captain Brazen. Melinda and Sylvia argue and part and Sylvia leaves her father's house to mourn her brother Owen's death, telling her father she is going to the Welsh countryside but in fact going into Shrewsbury dressed as a man, under the name Jack Wilful, where Brazen and Plume compete to recruit her. Kite abducts her for Plume and she goes on to spend the night in bed as Wilful with Rose, a local wench previously courted by Plume to get Rose's brother Bullock to join up. An action is brought against 'Wilful' for ravishing Rose and 'he' finds 'himself' on trial before Sylvia's father Balance and his fellow magistrates, who also look into Kite's dubious recruiting practices but finally acquit him and force Wilful to swear to the Articles of War. Meanwhile Melinda continues to encourage Brazen, until going to a fortune teller (in fact Kite in disguise), where she is convinced to relent to Worthy's courtship. She is also tricked by being given a sample of her handwriting by the 'fortune teller', who takes it from a 'devil' he has conjured up under the table (in fact Plume). The fortune teller is then visited by Brazen, who leaves a love letter from (as he thinks) Melinda with Kite. However, by comparing the handwriting sample, Worthy discovers that the letter is in fact from Melinda's maid Lucy, who hopes to ensnare Brazen as a husband. Worthy then goes to visit Melinda but, on going to tell Plume the good news, finds out that Melinda seems to be eloping with Brazen after all. Worthy intercepts Brazen and the disguised Lucy and challenges Brazen to a duel, but Lucy drops her disguise and the duel is prevented. Plume agrees to leave the army and marry Sylvia, Melinda relents towards Worthy, and Plume transfers his twenty recruits to Brazen to compensate him for the loss of a rich marriage with Melinda. [1] Production history The Recruiting Officer was the first play to be staged in the Colony of New South Wales[2], which is now Australia, by the convicts of the First Fleet in 1789 under the governance of Captain Arthur Phillip RN (also Commodore of the First Fleet).[3], as well as the first performance of the original Dock Street Theatre in Historic downtown Charleston, SC in 1736. There have been two television adaptations of the play, one in 1965 for Australian television, and one Play of the Month in 1973, the latter starring Ian McKellen as Plume, Prunella Ransome as his sweetheart Silvia, Jane Asher as Melinda, John Moffatt as Brazen, and Brian Blessed as Sergeant Kite. Influences The German dramatist Bertolt Brecht adapted The Recruiting Officer as Trumpets and Drums in 1955. Thomas Keneally wrote a novel, The Playmaker, based on the staging of this play by the First Fleet. That novel was adapted into a play, Our Country's Good, in 1988, by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Both works deal with the nature and merits of punishment, rehabilitation and theatre. References ^ Farquhar, G. ed. Trussler, S. The Recruiting Officer, Nick Hern Books, London, 1997. ISBN 978-1854593405 ^ For more information on this production's rehearsal period and performance, consult: Max Stafford-Clark, Letters to George: The Account of a Rehearsal, Nick Hern Books, London, 1997. ISBN 978-1854593177 ^ Hughes, Robert (1987) The Fatal Shore, Collins. v • d • e Restoration comedy of manners Marriage A-la-Mode · The Country Wife · The Libertine · The Man of Mode · The Plain-Dealer · The Rover · The Kind Keeper · The Rover, Part II · The Feigned Courtesans · The Lucky Chance · Bury Fair · Sir Anthony Love · The Wives Excuse · The Old Bachelor · The Double-Dealer · Love For Love · She Ventures and He Wins · Love's Last Shift · The Relapse · The Provoked Wife · Love and a Bottle · The Constant Couple · The Way of the World · The Perjured Husband · The Beau Defeated · Sir Harry Wildair · The Basset Table · The Recruiting Officer · The Beaux' Stratagem · The Busybody This article on a play from the 18th century is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e