The Libertine
By Stephen Jeffreys
The Libertine is a play that needs 13 or more performers (5 women, 8 men). Licensed by Dramatic Publishing.
- Type
- play
- Cast size
- 13 or more performers
- Roles
- 5 women, 8 men
- Cast notes
- 8m., 5w. (Doubling or extras possible.)
- Recommended level
- High school
- Dance
- No dance
- Genre
- comedy
- Licensor
- Dramatic Publishing
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Synopsis
"You will not like me. No, I say you will not," taunts the Earl of Rochester at the opening of this riotously funny and intriguing comedy of sexual manners…based on the life of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), poet and satirist. "The Libertine presents Rochester as the ultimate, sensation-seeking product of a decadent era. 'You see I must always exceed, or I don't feel I'm alive,' says the Earl. And when confronted with a comedy based on his life, George Etherege's Man of Mode, h
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