

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.

Archie Christian
Carpenter #1 & Stockjobber

Errol Flynn
Carpenter #2 & Stockjobber

Kieran Gordon
Apprentice

Geoff Regan
Jack Ketch, the Executioner

Susan Gallivan
Mrs. Sheppard

William Fowler
Soldier #1

Mark Harwood
Soldier #2

Doug Shearer
Priest

Clifford Allison
Master Wood & Rummer

Peter Hurley
Page the Butcher

Duncan Mahon
Sykes alias Hell & Fury

Peter Suchin
Hack Journalist

Yvonne Harvell
Drinker in Tavern

Tim Goldie
Masked Reveller & Stockjobber

Sebastian Loseley Williams
Sir James Thornhill

Maya Lubinsky
Masked Lady #1

Tammy Saunder
Masked Lady #2