Season
1986-87
Play
Hadrian The Seventh
Run Dates
January 21, 1987–February 1, 1987
Image features: Charlie Tomlinson. Image Courtesy of Archives & Special Collections at Memorial University Libraries.
Playwright
- Peter Luke (Adaption)
- Frederick William Rolfe (Original)
Director
Cast
- Charlie Tomlinson Performer
- Janis Spence Performer
- John Holmes Performer
- Christopher Jones Performer
- Bryan Hennessey Performer
- Michael Wade Performer
- Philip Dinn Performer
- Paul Rowe Performer
- Beni Malone Performer
Description
As Pope Hadrian VII, Rolf proves his intelligence, his stubbornness and his eccentricity as the most unworldy Pope in centuries – a Pope who scourges the Cardinals of the Church for their vanity and hypocrisy, who scorns privilege and ceremony and smokes hand rolled cigarettes on the Papal throne, and who sells the treasures of the Vatican to help ease the misery of the world’s poor.
Production type
- RCA Production