L ' I N F E R N O

CAST & DURATION
The DANTE, VIRGIL, BEATRICE, and MUSES actors account for all the onstage and offstage characters
in the sections below, with the exception of those named: CHARON etc. Those roles are filled by 2 or
3 male actors.
The DANTE actor needs to be bilingual; BEATRICE has only 3 lines in Italian.
DURATION
Full-length: 180 mins. (with an interval?)
Short version (omitting greyed-out sections): 141 mins.
The work may be trimmed further, while preserving BEATRICE’s role in CITY OF DIS, GERYON, THE
WALL and RETURNED; and DIDO’s voice role in HEROES & HEROINES, THE LUSTFUL & LAMPS.
CHARON
HOMER
HORACE
OVID
LUCAN
(very short non-speaking roles)
PAOLO
FRANCESCA
(disguised Beatrice actor or Muse?)
CIACCO
SECTION
DURATION
inc. Music
THE DARK WOOD & THE HILL 14.00 C1 1
- C2 138
THE GATE OF HELL 3.20 C3 1-78
CHARON & SOULS 2.50 C3 82-129
LOOKING INTO THE AUDIENCE ABYSS .30 C3 129
- C4 22
THE UNBAPTISED 1.50 C4 22-63
THE GREAT: 4 POETS 1.30 C4 63-99
HEROES & HEROINES 2.10 C4 103-129
PHILOSOPHERS 2.30 C4 130
- C5 24
THE LUSTFUL 2.00 C5 25-67
PAOLO & FRANCESCA 4.00 C5 73-138
CERBERUS 1.40 C6 1-24
CIACCO 3.10 C6 40-108
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