The Double Gallant

THE DOUBLE GALLANT

or The Sick Lady's Cure

A farcical comedy by Colley Cibber and others*

First produced at the Queens Theatre on London's Haymarket, November 1st, 1707

Starring Fenella Fielding, John Westbrook, June Tobin, Jane Wenham.

Cast in order of appearance:

Prologue / Sir Henry Atall..... Austin Trevor

Atall ...., Timothy West

Tom Clerimint - John Westbrook

Careless - Peter Pratt

Sir Solomon Sadlife - Hamlyn Benson

Supple, His Man / Mr Rhubarb - Lewis Stringer

Clarinda, niece to Sir Solomon - June Tobin

Sylvia, her cousin - Jane Wenham

Wishwell, Lady Sadlife's Woman - Hilda Kriseman

Lady Sadlife - Janet Burnell

Lady Dainty - Fenella Fielding

Situp, her woman - Dorit Welles

Caesar / An Indian / Finder, man to Atall - Jonathan Scott

Pompey / An American Birdman - David Valla

The Chinawoman - Sian Davies

Doctor Blister / Mr Lockum, the Queen's messenger.... Kenneth Hyde

Old Mr Wilful - George Merritt

Music composed and conducted by Christopher Whelen played by a section of the New Symphony Orchestra

Harpsichord, Lionel Salter

Adapted for radio and produced by Raymond Raikes

First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in October 1962.

* The Double Gallant (1707) was constructed from Burnaby's The Reformed Wife (1700) and The Lady's Visiting Day (1701) and Centlivre's Love at a Venture (1706).

Atall can't decide which of his three ladies he prefers so tries to string them all along.

Atall takes two names to woo three ladies and Lady Dainty looks for a cure. Stars Fenella Fielding and Timothy West. From 1962.

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