Lovers’ Vows

by Elizabeth Inchbald
Produced by We Happy Few
Directed by Kerry McGee

Cast:

Frederick/Butler — Jack Novak*
Count Cassel/Agatha — Jessica Lefkow
Baron Vildenheim — Lee Ordeheim
Amelia — Gabby Wolfe
Anhalt — Alex Turner

*Jessica and I were both nominated for Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor.

Above: the Butler character is obsessed with writing in verse, and refuses to deliver news any other way, much to everyone’s dismay. Here he comes to reveal that Count Cassel is a scoundrel!

Below: Frederick is the melodramatic hero. He returns home from the military to find his mother penniless and dying, then finds out he’s a bastard and his real father is a wealthy Baron. To save his mother he demands money from the Baron (not knowing it’s him) at knife-point, and is thrown in jail. Here he is at his most emo.