Cast of Characters

William Hackett
BILLY BUDD
Foretopman

Michael Sandridge
 Captain Vere

Christopher Peterson
BILLY BUDD
Foretopman

Yea and Nay--Each hath his say;
But God He keeps the middle way.

Absolute good and absolute evil cannot live in this world together, according to Melville.
Each must destroy the other, for human life is a compromise that follows the middle way.

Claggart sends Jackson aloft.
Ryan Webb, Thomas Lanigan, Eric McGovern

George Richardson
John Philip Seymour

Tim Guarino
John Ratcliffe

Patrick Niedzwiedz
Bordman Wyatt

Kevin Bukley
The Dansker

"Jemmy Legs is down on you, Billy!"

Dansker refuses Claggart's intimidation.

Claggart: Pale ire, envy and despair.

Kevin Baker, Ryan Webb, Tim Guarino, Patrick Niedzwiedz, Michael Sandridge,
Charlie Laster, George Richardson, Rafael Cabanillas, Bart Pohlman

Robert Callahan

Billy is impressed on to the HMS Indomitable.

Kevin Buckley

Standing watch

Standing Watch

 

Adam Murphree

Andrew Assadollahi as Squeak

Drew Glazer

"Struck by the angel of God!
Yet the angel must hang!"

“How can we adjudge to summary and shameful death
a fellow creature, innocent before God, and whom we feel to be so?”

"Wyatt, we do not deal
with justice here,
but with the law."

"Was not the one conceived
to serve the other?"

"Is there no hope for me, Captain?"

Michael Sandridge
Edward Fairfax Vere
Captain, Royal Navy

"God bless Captain Vere!"

"Captain Vere tells the truth. It is just as Captain Vere
says, but it is not as the master-at-arms said.
I have eaten the King's bread and I am true to the King."

Michael Sandridge, Jimmy Holliday, Ryan Webb

“Not that he preached to them
or said or did anything
in particular,
but a virtue
went out of him,
sugaring the sour ones.”

"Handsome is as handsome does."

Sam Stringfellow, James Habenicht and the crew.

"Farewell to the
Rights of Man."

William Hackett

Christopher Peterson