The Lady's Not For Burning
Prospect Theatre Company, Old Vic Theatre, 1978

with...
Richard:  Michael Thomas
Thomas Mendip:  Derek Jacobi
Alizon Elliot:  Kate Nicholls
Nicholas Devize:  Clive Arrindel
Margaret  Devize:  Brenda Bruce
Humphrey Devize:  Oz Clarke
Hebbie Tyson:  Michael Dennison
Jennet Jourdemayne:  Eileen Atkins
Chaplain:  Robert Eddison
Tappercoom:   John Savident
Matthew Skipps:  Ronnie Stevens

no summaries for you, ladies and gentlemen...
the whole play is
here

We've given you a world as contradictory
As a female, as cabalistic as the male,
A conscienceless hermaphrodite who plays
Heaven off against hell, hell off against heaven,
Revolving in the ball-room of the skies,
Glittering with conflict as with diamonds:
We have wasted paradox and mystery on you
When all you're asking for is cause and effect!...
A copy of your birth-certificate was all you needed
To make you at peace with Creation. How uneconomical
The whole thing's been.
The Lady's not for Burning, Christopher Fry 

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