UID:
almahu_9949432085102882
Umfang:
1 online resource (87 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781788504911
,
9781784606619
Serie:
NHB modern plays
Inhalt:
"Beth Flintoff's play The Ballad of Maria Marten is a historical drama based on the real-life Red Barn Murder, which took place in Suffolk in 1827. It retells the story - documented in numerous plays, ballads and songs - from the perspective of the victim, Maria Marten. The play was commissioned by Ivan Cutting for Eastern Angles, and first performed by the company on the Ipswich Waterfront on 11 July 2018. The play opens with Maria briefly and obliquely narrating the circumstances of her own death, and the concealment of her body in the Red Barn, where nobody has yet found her. 'I could tell you that story,' she says, 'but I don't want to yet.' Instead, she wants to explain 'who I really was. Before.' After a ritual 'un-murdering', in which Maria's battered and bloodied body is cleansed and restored by the rest of the cast, the story skips back to follow her from the age of ten, when she was a servant working at a local vicarage, until we reach the murder and its aftermath, ending with the uplifting response of many of the women in the community. The premiere production was performed by an all-female cast: Lydia Bakelmun, Elizabeth Crarer, Sarah Goddard, Lucy Grattan, Bethan Nash and Roxanne Palmer. It was subsequently produced by Eastern Angles and Matthew Linley Creative Projects, reopening at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on 11 February 2020 with some changes of cast. Its third touring production opened at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, on 16 September 2021, directed by Hal Chambers"--About the play.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Drama.
DOI:
10.5040/9781784606619.00000004
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781784606619.00000004?locatt=label:secondary_dramaOnline
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