Casina; or, The Stratagem Defeated

Stalino and Euthynicis have both fallen in love with Casina, who as an infant was raised by Cleostrata, Stalino's mistress. It is arranged that Stalino and Euthynicis (Cleostrata's son) shall draw lots to see who will determine her future. But Cleostrata develops a stratagem to try to prevent this. (Note: some small fragments of the original script in Act 5 did not survive 2200 years. Neither the translator nor we have made anything up to fill those short gaps - in fact, the translator left some of the nearby text still in Latin - but you can get the idea of who is in big big trouble. You can look at the linked etext for some helpful info.)
- Summary by ToddHW


Cast list:

Alcesimus, a neighbor of Stalino: Alan Mapstone

Stalino, an aged Athenian: Algy Pug

Chalinus, the armor-bearer of Euthynicus, son of Stalino: Glys

Olympio, bailiff of Stalino: Greg Giordano

Maid-servants: Alexandria Adair

Cook: Phil Schempf

Pardalisca, her maid-servant: ShrimpPhish

Cleostrata, wife of Stalino: Sonali Ekka

Stage directions: ToddHW

Myrrhina, wife of Alcesimus: Michele Eaton