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Profligate

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Profligate

by Arthur Wing Pinero

English· 02:17:07· 4 chapters
'Mr. Pinero, in essaying to deal dramatically with a moral problem in a manner which, while neither cynical nor commonplace, should still be in touch with human sympathy and possible experience, appears to have deliberately set himself to conceive a group of characters, natural yet not ordinary, which should embody his ideals, and with a sufficient sense of actuality evolve the tragic recoil of sin, the dramatic pathos of innocence in contact with the irony of life, the exquisite influence of purity. Whether Mr. Pinero succeeded in carrying out his idea or not, even the severest of his critics could not deny this play respectful consideration. “A real play at last,” ...“no original English play produced on our stage for many a day has stirred its audience so deeply at the time of its representation, or has sent them home with so much to think over, to discuss and to remember.”'
- Summary by Malcolm C. Salaman, 1891


Cast list:

Wilfrid Brudenell: redrun

Leslie, his sister: Jenn Broda

Dunstan Renshaw: Greg Giordano

Janet Preece: Christine Rottger

Mr. Cheal: Adrian Stephens

Hugh Murray: ToddHW

Mr. Ephgraves: Larry Wilson

Lord Dangars: Alan Mapstone

Mrs. Stonehay: Sonia

Irene, her daughter: Matea Bracic

Weaver: Tomas Peter

Priscilla: Inkell

Stage Directions: Beeswaxcandle

Editing: ToddHW

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1

    Act 1 - THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN

    46:35
  2. Chapter 2

    Act 2 - THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES

    33:36
  3. Chapter 3

    Act 3 - THE END OF THE HONEYMOON

    33:41
  4. Chapter 4

    Act 4 - THE BEGINNING OF A NEW LIFE

    23:15