Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

This "Afterpiece" - a short play to follow a main production - was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with echoes of Molière, moving from scene to scene with little effort at logical consistency or structure but treating each scene autonomously for its own comic value.

The rather long Prologue to A WILL AND NO WILL (11 pages of manuscript) makes fun of the convention of the eighteenth century prologues by the familiar dodge of having actors chatting as though they were in the Pit waiting for the actors in the preceding main play to dress for the afterpiece. - Summary from Introduction

Cast list:

Prolog

Rattle: Beth Thomas

Smart: Larry Wilson

Dullman: Newgatenovelist

Irishman: alanmapstone

Snarlewit: TriciaG

Acts 1 & 2

SIR ISAAC SKINFLINT: Larry Wilson

BELLAIR and SERVANT: ToddHW

DOCTOR LEATHERHEAD: Beth Thomas

COUNCELLOUR CORMORANT: alanmapstone

MR. LITTLEWIT: Zames Curran

MONSIEUR DU MAIGRE: Carol Eades King

MR. DEATH: alanmapstone

SHARK: Kristin Gjerløw

LADY LOVEWEALTH: Availle

HARRIET: Elizabeth Klett

LUCY: TriciaG

Stage Directions By: MaryAnn

Edited and Coordinated By: ToddHW