Theater review: APT's 'The Recruiting Officer' is a comedy of persuasion and possession

By Lindsay Christians, The Cap Times | July 3, 2018

Poor Rose. She’s no shrinking violet — all she wants is for a successful captain to, ahem, plant some seeds in her garden.

But the men in “The Recruiting Officer” are mainly interested in other men. The main reason to deflower Rose would be to get to her brother and her ex-boyfriends. There are many ways to possess a body.

George Farquhar wrote “The Recruiting Officer,” now running in the Hill Theatre at American Players Theatre, in 1706 and set it in Shrewsbury, near Wales. APT keeps the place but moves the action to 1774, when the American Revolution was heating up an ocean away.

Read the full review here.