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The Provok’d Wife

By Sir John Vanburgh

The Peter Hall Company


The Old Vic, London, 23rd June 1997


Constant
Andrew Woodall
Heartfree
Tim McInnerny
Sir John Brute
Michael Pennington
Rasor
Stephen Noonan
Treble/Jo/Dissolute Lord 1
Peter Broome
Justice of the Peace
Alan Dobie
Lord Rake
Peter Blythe
Colonel Bully
Peter Gordon
Tailor
Alan Dobie
Constable
Peter Gordon
First Watch /Servant/ Dissolute Lord 2
Christopher Bianchi
Pipe/Page/Servant
Neil Henry
Second Watch/ Flautist /Dissolute Lord  3/ Servant
Ben Albu
Lady Brute
Victoria Hamilton
Bellinda
Clare Swinburne
Lady Fancyfull
Alison Steadman
Madamoiselle
Janine Duvitski
Cornet/Prostitute 1
Olga Lowe
Prostitute 2
Clare Swinburne
Director
Lindsay Posner
Designer
John Gunter
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The New Mermaid edition clams that the former [Sir John Brute] is “Vanbrugh’s Falstaff and his vices are our delight.” Not so here: Michael Pennington plays Brute excellently as a testy, tuft-haired, possibly syphilitic monster…

-The Guardian