- Unknown:
- Gilbert Murray
- Conducted By:
- Antony Hopkins
- Produced By:
- Charles Lefeaux
- Introduced By:
- Gilbert Murray
- Philinus, a crabbed old man:
- Arthur Ridley
- Pataecus, a kindly old man:
- Keith Pyott
- Sosias, a corporal Polemo's batman:
- James Hayter
- Moschio a young man:
- Richard Bebb
- Glycera, beloved by Polemo:
- Patricia Driscoll
- Polemo, a colonel of light infantry:
- Peter Coke
- A Cook, a professional:
- James Thomason
- Doris Glycera's maid:
- Barbara Cole
- The goddess Ignorance:
- Eleanor Summerfleld
- Porter, at Myrrhine's house:
- George Merritt
- Myrrhine, a rich lady, adoptivemother of Moschio:
- Avice Landone
- Davus, Moschio's servant:
- John Gabriel
- Habronis, a dancer:
- Edwina Collins
