Miss Sara Sampson

G.E. Lessing, widely regarded by students of theater as the world's first dramaturg, was also one of the first proponents of the German bourgeois tragedy. Miss Sara Sampson, in which a young woman runs off with a ne'er-do-well who is still entangled with his former mistress, was a reaction against the Voltarian verse drama popular in the eighteenth century. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Cast:

Sir William Sampson: Anthony

Miss Sara Sampson, his daughter: Arielle Lipshaw

Mellefont: Algy Pug

Marwood, formerly Mellefont's mistress: Availle

Arabella, a child, daughter of Marwood: Miss Avarice

Waitwell, an old servant of Sir William: John Steigerwald

Norton, servant of Mellefont: John Fricker

Betty, Sara's maid: Nichole Thompson

Hannah, Marwood's maid: debolee

Innkeeper: David Lawrence

Servant: mb

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw