Meet the Cast
Face (a.k.a. Captain Face, a.k.a. Lungs, a.k.a. Jeremy the Butler)
The Butler Did ItWhen Master Lovewit flees London for his country estate, he leaves his servant in charge of his pad. What could possibly go wrong, right?Pretty much everything, because this servan...
Subtle
A Conman By Any Other Name Would Be Just As SubtleMerriam-Webster defines the word "subtle" as:hard to notice or see; not obviousclever and indirect, not showing your real purposehaving or showing...
Doll Common
No Damsel In DistressThere's no way to sugarcoat this: Doll's a prostitute and a con artist. Much like the dudes she runs with, she's no angel. She's from the mean streets of London—think of her...
Sir Epicure Mammon
Mammon, Or Madman?Mammon is hands down the most outrageous character in this entire play. (When The Alchemist is staged, Mammon is always a crowd favorite.) He thinks Subtle is a wise "Doctor" and...
Dapper
Dapper's the very first chump we meet in this play. He's a young, snazzy dressing (dare we say dapper) law clerk who loves to gamble. Face meets him at a tavern and tricks him into believing that S...
Pertinax Surly
Surly's Mammon's pal. He's obnoxious…but he's also dead right. He knows that alchemy is a bunch of boloney and makes it his mission in life to reveal that Subtle, Face, and Doll are a bunch of sw...
Ananias and Tribulation Wholesome
Ananias and his pastor, Tribulation Wholesome, are the Puritans from Amsterdam. More specifically, they're Anabaptists—members of a radical Puritan sect that was considered by a lot of folks to b...
Dame Pliant
Dame Pliant is a hot, young widow and the sister of Kastril. Dame Pliant (sometimes called the Widow Pliant) is also rich, which means that just about every dude in the play wants to marry her. Lik...
Kastril
Before we even begin to talk about this "angry boy," you should know that some editions of the play spell his name "Kastrel" so, don't freak out if your copy spells the name differently than we do....
Abel Drugger
Abel Drugger's a local shop-owner who slings tobacco for a living. He's probably the least greedy character in this play…but he's still a big chump. Face tricks him into believing that Subtle's a...
Master Lovewit
Lovewit's a rich dude who owns a house in London. When the plague hits the city, he flees to his country estate for safety, leaving his butler behind to look after the house. So, Lovewit's departur...