London Assurance (originally titled Out of Town) is a six-act comedy by Dion Boucicault. It was the second play that he wrote, but his first to be produced. Its first production, from March 4, 1841 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (by Charles Matthews and Madame Vestris's company) was Boucicault's first major success. In the spring of 2010, it was produced in a revised version (by Richard Bean) by the National Theatre, starring Fiona Shaw and Simon Russell Beale, for sold-out crowds. In addition, the theatre broadcast a performance as part of its new NTLive series, to thousands of people in cinemas in international venues across the world.
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