By Archibald MacLeish Directed by Alex Henderson Season: 29 September - 3 October 1964 A fresh and exalting morality that has great stature. It is one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry... We are deep in the unanswered problems of man's relationship to God in an era of cruel injustices. J.B. is Mr. MacLeish's counterpart of the immortal Job. The glory of the play is that, as in the Book of Job, JB does not curse God. When he is reunited with his wife, two humbled but valiant people accept the universe, agree to begin life all over again, expecting no justice but unswerving in their devotion to God. Cast: First maid - Rosamund Heinz Second maid - Patricia Carr Second Roustabout - Ernest Adams First Roustabout - Robert Higson Mr Nickles - Brian Cooper Mr Zuss - Don Farr Sarah - Daphne Milburn JB - Keith Cooke Rebecca - Louise Biss Ruth - Rosina Browning Mary - Julie Garrett David - Simon Garrett Jonathon - Peter Hart A Soldier - Graham Loader 1st Soldier - Robert Higson 2nd Soldier - Ernest Adams The Girl - Sandra McClurg First Reporter - Robert Higson Second Reporter - Ernest Adams First Police Officer - Robert Higson Second Police Officer - Ernest Adams Mrs Adams - Stella Cameron Mrs Murphy - Alison Alston Mrs Botticelli - Muriel Biss Miss Mabel - Maureen Henderson Mrs Lesure - Renee Hart Jolly Adams - Wendy-Jane Brown Small Boy - Dean Garrett 1st Civil Defence Officer - Robert Higson 2nd Civil Defence Officer - Ernest Adams Bildad - Michael Lynch Eliphaz - Ross Inkster Zophar - George Benson The Distant Voice - Frederick A Betts Crowd - Wendy-Jane Brown, Stella Cameron, Patricia Carr, Rosamund Heinz, Maureen Henderson, Judy Perrott, Frederick Berwick, Peter D Brown, Gordon Cookson, Michael Lynch, Ivan Finlayson, Geoffrey Seamark |