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Miss Sara Sampson

by Gotthold Ephraim LESSING (1729 - 1781)

Act 4

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

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