The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

For six actors or more

One of the greatest novels in the English language, The Age of Innocence has at its core a tragic love triangle within the well-heeled of 1870s Manhattan.

Director Martin Scorsese famously said his cinematic adaptation of The Age of Innocence was ‘the most violent film I ever made’ and this stage adaptation retains every vicious turn and act towards protagonist-misfit Archer and wondrous-outsider Olenska - embodied most by the unique presence of a Greek-chorus-of-the-Gilded Age called The Gentile.