The White Devil
National Theatre
Cast & Crew
Cast
Camillo; Priest | Benjamin Whitrow |
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Chancellor; Carlo | David Ryall |
Conjuror; Venetian Ambassador | Brian Tully |
Cornelia | Hazel Hughes |
Count Lodovico | Edward Petherbridge |
Dr Julio; Young Lord; T/O Gasparo | Michael Tudor Barnes |
English Ambassador | Lewis Jones |
Flamineo | Edward Woodward |
Francisco de Medici, Duke of Florence | Anthony Nicholls |
French Ambassador | Frederick Pyne |
Gasparo; T/O Paulo Giordano Orsini | Frank Barrie |
Giovanni | Dominic Guard |
Giovanni; Acolyte | Paul Dorfman |
Isabella | Jane Wenham |
Jacques | Lionel Guyett |
Marcello; Acolyte | Edward Hardwicke |
Matron of the House of Convertites | Helen Burns |
Milanese Ambassador; Cardinal of Aragon | James Hayes |
Monticelso | John Moffatt |
Moorish servant of Vittoria | Barbara Atkinson |
Moorish servant of Vittoria | Kate Coleridge |
Moorish servant of Vittoria et al | Julia McCarthy |
Moorish servant of Vittoria; U/S Zanche | Jo Maxwell Muller |
Paulo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Braciano | Derek Godfrey |
Registrar; Pedro; T/O Dr Julio | Barry James |
Savoy Ambassador | Reginald Green |
Soldier | Hugh Armstrong |
Soldier | Sean Roantree |
Soldier | Lawrence Trimble |
Soldier | Paul Vousden |
Spanish Ambassador | William Hobbs |
T/O Chancellor; Cardinal of Aragon | Denis Lill |
T/O Count Lodovico | Derek Jacobi |
T/O Giovanni | Andrew Dowling |
T/O Giovanni | Peter Duncan |
T/O Milanese Ambassador | James Fagan |
T/O Moorish servant | Rachel Herbert |
T/O Moorish servant | Janet Michael |
T/O Savoy Ambassador | Peter Rocca |
T/O Soldier | Tom Georgeson |
T/O Soldier | Howard Southern |
Vittoria Corombona | Geraldine McEwan |
Zanche | Jane Lapotaire |
Crew | |
Assistant director | Roland Joffe |
Composer | Marc Wilkinson |
Designer | Piero Gherardi |
Director | Frank Dunlop |
Fights | William Hobbs |
Lightin designer | Robert Ornbo |
Movement | Claude Chagrin |
Photographer | Zoe Dominic |
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Play description
The White Devil is a retelling of a true story. In 1473, at the age of 16, Vittoria Accoramboni was married to a nephew of Cardinal Montalto. At the age of 23, she met Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano. He fell desperately in love with Vittoria and ordered her husband’s murder. The two were married, but Bracciano died eight months later. The Medicis challenged his will, in which he left his fortune in Vittoria’s charge, and when she refused to listen to them, they had her assassinated.
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