Original Plays, Second Series :: DAN'L DRUCE, BLACKSMITH.

DAN'L DRUCE, BLACKSMITH.

A NEW AND ORIGINAL DRAMA,
IN THREE ACTS.

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Monday September 11th, 1876.

An incident in the First Act was suggested by George Eliot’s Novel “Silas Marner.”

Sir Jasper Combe, a Royalist Colonel				Mr. Howe.
Dan’l Druce				Mr. Hermann Vezin.
Reuben Haines, a Royalist Sergeant				Mr. Odell.
Geoffrey Wynyard, a Merchant Sailor				Mr. Forbes Robertson.
Marple				Mr. Braid.
Joe Ripley, a Fisherman				Mr. Weathersby.
Sergeant	}	Of the Parliamentary	{	Mr. C. Allbrook.
Soldier	}	Army	{	Mr. Fielder.
Dorothy				Miss Marion Terry.

The First Act is supposed to take place shortly after the Battle of Worcester.

An interval of fourteen years between the First and Second Acts.

ACT I.

A RUINED HUT ON THE NORFOLK COAST.

ACT II.

DAN’L DRUCE’S FORGE.

ACT III.

INTERIOR OF DRUCE’S COTTAGE.

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