translated and freely adapted by David Turner from El Magico Prodigioso by Pedro Calderan de la Barca
with David Buck, Lisa Harrow and Patrick Troughton

Calderan (1600-1681) represented the late flowering of Golden Age poetic drama. His themes - intellectual curiosity, concern with personal identity, religion and the law, are all brought together in this play, written two years after Life is a Dream.

It is a 17th-century Spanish version of the story of Cyprian of Antioch, who sold his soul to the Devil in exchange for magical powers.

With MICHAEL TUDOR BARNES, MARY WIMBUSH and MICHAEL GOLDIE
Incidental music composed and conducted by DAVID CAIN, played by the PRAETORIUS CONSORT director CHRISTOPHER BALL DOREEN WALKER (contralto) Special effects by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Produced and directed by MARGARET ETALL
(Lisa Harrow is a member of the RSC)