Michelene Wandor's play, inspired by various paintings and etchings, explores the life of the enigmatic 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza and imagines a world in which Spinoza appears in Rembrandt's Night Watch and is courted by one of Cromwell's spies. With Angela Pleasence (Angel), Ben Meyjes (Baruch Spinoza), Gabriel Woolf (Miguel Spinoza), Jasmine Hyde (Rebecca), Struan Rodger (Cromwell), John McAndrew (Downing), Timothy Spall (Rembrandt), Philip Voss (Menasseh), Grant Gillespie (De Witt), David Horovitch (Morteira), Nicholas Boulton (Da Costa)and Thomas Howes (Joseph Prado).
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