The Devil is an Ass

by Ben Jonson

 

 

 

Performed at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Edinburgh Festival, the National Theatre and on a European tour 

 

 

 

Running time: app 2h 45m

1 Intermission

 

 

 

Director: Stuart Burge

Associate Director: Peter Barnes

Design: Robin Archer

Lighting: Robert Ornbo

Music: John Leach

 

 

Synopsis     Notes

 

 

Run sheet

 

 

Bernard Lloyd..... Satan, the Great Devil

Chris Ryan..... Pug, the Less Devil

Roy Finn..... Wrath, the Vice

David Gant..... Lady Vanity, the Vice

Michael Menaugh..... Covetousness, the Vice

Richard Butler..... Iniquity, the Vice

Peter Vaughan..... Fabian Fitzdotterel

David Burke..... Engine, a broker

Alan Rickman..... Wittipol, a young Gallant

William Lindsay..... Eustace Manly, his friend

Anna Calder-Marshall..... Mrs. Frances Fitzdotterel

Derek Godfrey..... Meercraft, the Promoter

David Foxxe..... Trains, the Promoter’s man

David Suchet..... Thomas Gilthead, a goldsmith

Allan Corduner..... Plutarchus, his son

Roger Kemp..... Everill, his champion

Elisabeth Power..... Lady Tailbush, the Lady Projectress

Janet Maw..... Pitfall, her woman

Ursula Smith..... Lady Eitherside

Roger Sloman..... Sir Paul Eitherside, a lawyer and Justice

Earl Robinson..... Ambler, gentleman steward to Lady Tailbush

Sheila Ferris..... a whore

Michael Hughes..... Sledge, a smith and the constable

Danny Schiller..... Shackles, keeper of Newgate

James Saxon..... attendant

John Leach / Anthea Cox / Graeme Scott / George Fenton..... musicians

 

 

Synopsis

 

 

Suchet’s wife, former actress Sheila Ferris, appears on the cast list in the role of a whore.

 

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