Marriage is a bit vague, isn’t it? Unless you have a lawyer write your vows, the actual terms of the agreement aren’t really spelled out beyond love and cherish. Who has to clean the bathroom? Whose last name does the dog take? In William Somerset Maugham’s witty, subversive 1920s comedy The Constant Wife, the spouse of a surgeon decides to redefine her marriage as a sex-free zone after her husband takes a mistress. When Constance plans to vacation with her own lover, however, her cheating husband raises a peevish British protest. Although the Guthrie has run its share of British drawing-room comedies, this is the first time it’s staged a Maugham play. 612-377-2224; www.guthrietheater.org
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