The Trouble With Love

<p>Hardcastle wants his daughter Kate to marry Marlowe the son of Sir Charles Marlowe.</p><p>Mrs. Hardcastle wants Tony her son by a previous marriage to marry his cousin Constance.</p><p>ate finds Marlowe aloof and boring.</p><p>Marlowe finds Kate intimidating and boring.</p><p>Constance wants to marry Marlowe's friend Hastings.</p><p>Hastings wants to marry Constance.</p><p>Tony doesn’t want to marry anybody.</p><p>Then there are the family jewels. And an inheritance.</p><p>It all comes to a head after a practical joke goes awry in this hilarious two-act play based on Oliver Goldmith’s classic comedy of manners “She Stoops to Conquer.”</p>