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Miss Sara Sampson

by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781)
Translated by Ernest A. Bell

G.E. Lessing, widely regarded by students of theater as the world's first dramaturg, was also one of the first proponents of the German bourgeois tragedy. Miss Sara Sampson, in which a young woman runs off with a ne'er-do-well who is still entangled with his former mistress, was a reaction against the Voltarian verse drama popular in the eighteenth century. (Summary by Arielle Lipshaw)

Cast:

Sir William Sampson: Anthony
Miss Sara Sampson, his daughter: Arielle Lipshaw
Mellefont: Algy Pug
Marwood, formerly Mellefont's mistress: Availle
Arabella, a child, daughter of Marwood: Miss Avarice
Waitwell, an old servant of Sir William: John Steigerwald
Norton, servant of Mellefont: John Fricker
Betty, Sara's maid: Nichole Thompson
Hannah, Marwood's maid: debolee
Innkeeper: David Lawrence
Servant: mb

Narrator: Elizabeth Klett

Audio edited by: Arielle Lipshaw


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