Understudy remains in place in Caroline Quentin’s Chichester absence

Caroline Quentin in Mrs Warren's Profession. Photo by Pamela Raith

Mrs Warren's Profession at Chichester’s Festival Theatre is once again going ahead today (Thursday) with an understudy in place in Caroline Quentin’s continuing absence through illness.

A CFT spokesman said: “The understudy will be on for both performances today. Caroline is still very much hoping to get back before the end of the week, but we are having to take it day by day.”

Tuesday’s performance was cancelled before an understudy stepped in on Wednesday.

The show stars Caroline Quentin with Caroline’s real-life daughter Rose Quentin playing her on-stage daughter.

Twice winner of the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Actress, Caroline Quentin made her Chichester debut in 2018’s Me and My Girl. Her many television roles have ranged from Men Behaving Badly and Jonathan Creek to Stephen Poliakoff’s Dancing on the Edge.

Shortly after graduating in 2019, Rose Quentin starred in the horror movie York Witches Society, and recently appeared on tour in a new stage version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.

Mrs Warren’s daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. A sensible young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education, a generous monthly allowance and now has ambitions to go into Law. Is it conceivable that her privilege and respectability has been financed from the profits of the world’s oldest profession? How will Vivie react when she finds out the startling truth about her mother’s business empire and that freedom comes at an emotional price?

The show is due to be at Chichester Festival Theatre until December 3.