The Rivals

You thought! Thought does not become a young woman.



Bath in the Roaring Twenties: risqué revelry, romance, and rivalry in the Assembly Rooms – a town torn between tradition and the new age.



Lydia and Jack (Zoe Brough and Kit Young) are made for each other – but Lydia’s a rebel and Jack’s too posh to be her beau. What’s a chap to do? A little harmless deception, of course.



Meanwhile, Jack’s father, Anthony Absolute (Robert Bathurst), is absolutely determined to be obeyed, and Lydia’s guardian Mrs Malaprop (Patricia Hodge) is seeking a love-affair of her own – if only she could find the right words…