The History of the Devil

In Clive Barker's frequently fantastic and often grotesque The History of the Devil, a deprived and lovelorn Satan is sick and tired of living in Hell. He bemoans the loss of his angel-wings, his freedom of flight, his elegance, and grace. And he misses God. So, he calls a trial, his appeal, to seek re-admittance into Heaven. The prosecution argues that the Devil’s presence on Earth has had a disastrous effect on mankind, whereas the defense counters that the Devil is – and always has been – man’s greatest scapegoat.

It's an argument for integrity. If letting the Devil, a character widely regarded as the ultimate wrongdoer, go free turns out to be the ethical thing to do, should you do it?

Under James Kable’s direction of Clive Barker's dark and witty script for Polymorphic Productions, we see Satan at his mercurial wickedest. In a play of interesting twists and turns, full of dark humour and some hilarious role reversals, a gifted cast of 10 portray over 30 characters led by Connor Scoble as the slippery, charismatic Lucifer.

Connor is joined by Lisa Hickey, Sherri Smith, Tiana Varcoe, Thomas Eastwood, Sandra Harman, Alexis Beebe , Ben Postle, Zara Chandler and Cullyn Beckton in this one-of-a-kind production.