Words Lee Curtis

There’s nothing quite like the great British period drama. Sweeping romance, stately homes, and a warm sense of nostalgia. Writer-director Peter Glanz has other plans.

Turn back the clock to eighteenth-century England for a far darker affair in a time of deadly disease, disputed kings, and characters whose morals decay as quickly as their estates.

At the centre of this mad world stand Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage, a couple clinging so desperately to their delusions of grandeur that they’re convinced a single dinner with the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire is enough to restore their tarnished name. Their once-noble estate is crumbling, their finances are in ruin, and the less said about their social standing, the better. So, they scrub, scheme, and stage a lavish banquet in hope of rewriting their family into the history books. As the theatrics escalate, the façade cracks and their grand ambitions unravel in spectacularly hilarious fashion.

National treasure Richard E. Grant revels in the vanity and chaos as Sir Chauncey, while Claire Foy brings sharp wit as Lady Savage, a woman holding onto what little she has as it collapses around her. 

You’re cordially invited to witness a darkly comic and timely cautionary tale about greed, aspiration, and the absurd lengths people will go to in the pursuit of status. One thing for certain, Savage is a name time won’t forget.

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