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Trick to Catch the Old One
bookshelves: earlymodern16c-18c, britain-england, filthy-lucre, published-1507, play-dramatisation, fraudio, amusing, jacobean
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A Trick to Catch the Old One (1607)by Thomas Middleton (1580 - 1627)
Blurb: Thomas Middleton's "A Trick to Catch the Old One," a city comedy about avarice, the power of money and the gullibility and greed of those who pursue it. Alan Rickman is magnificent.
CAST
Alan Rickman (Witgood)
Dilys Laye (Flavia)
Maurice Denham (Pecunius Lucre)
Peter Bayliss (Walkadine Hoard)
Timothy Bateson (Harry Dampit)
David Garth (Onesiphorus Hoard)
Colin Starkey (Limber/Sir Lancelot)
William Eedle (Host)
John Webb (Lamprey)
Brian Smith (Spitchock)
Mark Straker (Sam Freedom/George)
Peter Acre (Moneylove/Young Gulf)
Anne Jameson (Jinny)
Trevor Nichols (First creditor)
Brian Sanders (Second creditor/Notary)
Arnold Diamond (Third creditor/Tavern-keeper)
Melinda Walker (Joyce)
Tina Marian (Audrey)
Adapted by Peter Barnes
Directed by Ian Cotterrell
Music by Jeremy Barlow, played by the Broadside Band
First broadcast on 6 January 1989
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