By John Steinbeck Directed by Brian Davis Season: 9 - 16 March 1976 The story is a simple morality play concerning Joe Saul, an ageing man desperate for a child. His young wife, Mordeen, who loves him, suspects that he is sterile, and in order to please him by bearing him a child, she becomes pregnant by Saul’s cocky young assistant, Victor. The fourth character in the story is Friend Ed, a long-time friend of Saul and Mordeen, who helps the couple through the ordeal after Joe discovers that he is indeed infertile and the child can not be his. Cast: Joe Saul - David Warwick Friend Ed - Brian Rose Mordeen - Dorothy Hart Victor - Donald Bruce |