This play by one of the world’s greatest poets tells of the martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket who, though tempted, refuses to seize temporal control of England.
Category: Daphne Young (Anderson)
1999
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The Roses of Eyam
A remarkable true story of a village stricken with plague through the arrival from London of a box of clothing; of the villagers’ determination to prevent its spread and contain the disease.
1998
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Sweeney Todd
Bond’s adaptation of the classic melodrama positions the murderous barber as a wronged man seeking vengeance against his numerous oppressors.
1993
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The Owl And The Pussycat Went To See…
The Owl and the Pussycat sail to the land where the Bong Tree grows have adventures and live happily ever after.
1992
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The Enquiry
Kate, a prisoner sentenced for killing her very sick child, has been attacked and driven to attempt suicide. The prison authoritites discover that the attack was made by an inmate.
1990
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The Man Who Noticed Such Things
A selection of scenes, sketches and music to celebrate the life, times and achievements of Thomas Hardy.
1990
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Charley’s Aunt
Jack and Charley persuade their friend, an undergraduate Lord Fancourt Babberley, to impersonate an aunt. The complications of the plot begin with the arrival of the real aunt.
1989
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Death and the Maiden
The events of the past are brought to life in Gorse Cottage when, after twenty years abroad, Mrs Bell’s daughter Sylvia returns to visit her mother and spinster sister, Mavis.
1989
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Sailor Beware!
A.B. Albert Tufnell is anxious that his fiancée, Shirley, should not take after her mother, Emma. Albert’s only defence is to go AWOL and not to turn up at church.
1988
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Pack of Lies
All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.
1988
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Martyred Wives
Most people have heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs of 1834, but what of their wives, the women behind the men in that troubled strife? This is the story of those women.