by James Bridie
Adapted for broadcasting by the author
Characters
Tobit
Tobias
Raphael
Anna
A Bandit
Raguel
Sara
Sherah
Azorah
Asmoday
The scene is laid in Mesopotamia and in Northern Persia
The time is before the reign of Ahasuerus
Act 1
Scene 1. Tobit's hovel in Nineveh
Scene 2. On the banks of the Tigris, a day's march from Nineveh
Act 2
Scene 1. Raguel's house in Hamadan
Scene 2. The same
Act 3
Scene 1. A khan near Kifri
Scene 2. A lane in Nineveh, outside
Tobit's hovel
This play, which was first performed in the Festival Theatre, Cambridge, on November 20, 1930, is described by the author as a plain sailing dramatic transcription of the charming old tale told in the Book of Tobit in the Apocrypha. One or two liberties have been taken with the text; the Jacobean language has been altered to a speech belonging to no particular period. The opinions of the characters are substantially unaltered, except those of Sara.