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30 years after abandoning him to run away with her lover, Lady Kitty (Kathleen Widdoes) makes a surprise visit to her son Arnold (James Waterston, left) at his grand home in Dorset, as Arnold's houseguest Teddie Luton (Craig Marker, center) observes.

Arnold's fiancée Elizabeth (Allison Jean White) apologies to Arnold's father Clive (Philip Kerr) for his former wife Lady Kitty's sudden unannounced visit. Thirty years earlier Kitty abandoned her husband Clive for Lord Porteous—and the two have returned to wreak havoc on Arnold's new marriage.

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Kitty (Kathleen Widdoes, center) yells at her husband Lord Porteous (Ken Ruta) during a game of bridge played with Teddie Luton (Craig Marker, right) and houseguest Anna Shenstone (Trish Mullholland, left). Kitty's former husband Clive (Philip Kerr) observes the spat in the background.

Arnold (James Waterston) reprimands Elizabeth (Allison Jean White) for wanting to end their marriage and swears he will never divorce her, despite her growing affection for Teddie Luton.

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Elizabeth (Allison Jean White) promises an elated Teddie (Craig Marker) that--despite being forbidden to do so by Arnold--she will abandon her marriage and run away with him.

Elizabeth (Allison Jean White) promises an elated Teddie (Craig Marker) that—despite being forbidden to do so by Arnold—she will abandon her marriage and run away with him. Having been down a similar road before, Kitty (Kathleen Widdoes) warns of the implications of social scandal as she urges Elizabeth (Allison Jean White) not to abandon a sure thing in her marriage to Arnold for a more impulsive love with Teddie.

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Clive (Philip Kerr, right), his ex-wife Kitty (Kathleen Widdoes), and the lover who got in-between them, Lord Porteous (Ken Ruta), laugh over the state of the younger generation's love affair--realizing that the family history has come "full circle."

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Last seen at A.C.T. alongside Marco Barricelli in Tennessee Williams's The Rose Tattoo, Broadway veteran Kathleen Widdoes returns to portray the vivacious Lady Kitty Cheney in W. Somerset Maugham's social satire The Circle, January 4 through February 4, directed by Mark Lamos.

Familiar to audiences from his performance in the film Dead Poets Society, James Waterston (son of "Law and Order" star Sam Waterston) joins Widdoes in The Circle.