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Theater - The Mandrake

  October 5-8, 1983

A play by Niccolo Machiavelli
Translated by Wallace Shawn

Production Staff
Director: James Fisher
Scenic and Lighting Designer: Kenneth Kloth
Costume Designer: Laura Conners
Stage Manager: Eric Hiser '86
Student Assistants: Cho Ky Pham '84, Jim Kurtz '85, Chris Ferris '86, Jerry Shelton
 
Cast List
Callimac: Kyle Carr '85
Sir: Kenneth Ogorek '87
Liguri: Curt Hunter '87
Lord Nicia: Adam Crowe '85
Lucrezia: Jennifer Ostermeier
Sostrata: Linda Ostermeier
Brother Timothy: Michael Abbott '85
A Woman: Susan Swan
A Beggar: Douglas Bradburn '84
 
Production Assistance
Sound: Brian Terpstra '85
Graphics: Laura Conners

Machiavelli’s The Mandrake, written sometime between 1512 and 1520, has been half-hidden for centuries in the shadow of The Prince.  Only recently has the play received adequate academic recognition as the unrivaled masterpiece of Italian comic theater.  T.B. Macaulay has said that The Mandrake “is superior to the best of Goldoni and inferior only to the best of Molière.”

This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College.  If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).


 
 
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