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April 17–20 and May 10–11, 1996
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A play by Archibald MacLeish
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Production Staff
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Director: Dwight Watson
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Set and Lighting Designer: Lonna Wilke
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Costume Designer: Lorrie Blackard
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Stage Manager: T.J. Ronningen '99
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Assistant Stage Manager: Kevin Wiley
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Cast List
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Daniel Webster: Dan Hartnett '99
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Scratch: George Belmore '01
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Jabez Stone: Luttrell D. Levingston
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Seth Peterson: Jonathan Foust '98
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Mr. Weston/John Webb: Robb Wilson '98
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Mrs. Weston/Juror #12: Rachel Miller
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Susan/Juror #11: Anna Stern
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Porter Wright/Juror #9: Michael Kebrdle '99
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Tom/Juror #7: Alan Williams '98
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Garnett/ Juror #10: Mark Cevallos '99
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John/Capt. James DeWolf: Steve Mathys '99
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Robert/Captain Kidd: Kevin Wiley
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Justice Hathorne: Brandon Jay Lyda '99
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Aaron Burr: Doug Stuart '96
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Charles Lynch: Jeph Duarte '96
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Dr. Benjamin Church: Marco Noyola '96
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Juror #8: Ezra Ball '96
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Production Assistance
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Properties: Joe Lopez '96
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Deck Crew: Ray Meyer '99, Curt Smiley '97
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Make-up Designer: Jonathan Foust '98
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Graphics: Ezra Ball '96
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Lightboard Operator: Will Strain '98
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Soundboard Operator: Giles Emory
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Suggested by Stephen Vincent Benet’s short story, “The Devil and Daniel Webster,” Scratch, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and poet Archibald MacLeish, dramatizes the tale of Jabez Stone, a farmer who sells his soul to the Devil for prosperity and then convinces the great orator Daniel Webster to save him. A midnight trial is set in the old barn of the Stone farm, where the crafty Devil summons a jury of the dead and damned in this mythic lawsuit. Webster is left to defend Jabez with only his wit and eloquence. MacLeish called Benet’s story “a tall tale in the grand style of the old Northeast, which got its salt from the sea, its rum from Barbados and its imagination from the dying embers of the long, wild, winter nights.”
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This page is part of an ongoing project to document the history of the theatre productions performed at Wabash College. If you have information not included on this page, please contact the Theater Department or Professor Dwight Watson (watsond@wabash.edu).
