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Androcles and the Lion

An Old Fable Renovated

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    George Bernard (GB) Shaw 

  • Suíomh

    Rome, some time after the death of Christ.

  • Achoimre

    "In this play I have represented one of the Roman persecutions of the early Christians, not as the conflict of a false theology with the true, but, as what all such persecutions essentially are, an attempt to suppress the propaganda that seemed to threaten the interests involved in the established law and order, organized and maintained in the name of religion and justice by politicians." (Preface, 1912) Shaws's retelling of the well-known tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the mercy of a lion.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    15

  • Female

    2

  • Total

    17

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    01 September 1913

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    'Androcles and the Lion' was first performed, in German, at the Kleines Theater in Berlin on the 25th of November 1912. The listing here refers to the play's first English-language performance.

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    First presented in English at St James' Theatre, London.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe  
Megaera Clare Greet
Menagerie Keeper Balliol Holloway
Retiarius J.B. Turnbull
Secutor Allan Jeayes
Call Boy Neville Gartside
Editor Herbert Hewetson
Centurion H.O. Nicholson
Spintho J.F. Outram
Ferrovius Alfred Brydone
Metellus Hesketh Pearson
Lion Edward Sillward
Emperor Leon Quartermaine
Androcles O.P. Heggie
Lentulus Donald Calthrop
Lavinia Lillah McCarthy
Captain Ben Webster
Slave Driver Ralph Hutton
Foireann Léirithe  
Stiúrthóir Harley Granville-Barker

Scripteanna Foilsithe

Eolas Faoi Chearta

Foinse Eolais