The Murder of Maria Marten

Name: The Murder of Maria Marten
Start: 1986-07-10
End: 1986-07-12
Location: Faringdon Community Theatre, The Pump House, 5 Market Place, Faringdon

(or The Red Barn)

A musical melodrama by Brian J Burton
Thursday 10 July 1986 - Saturday 12 July 1986
Faringdon Community Theatre, The Pump House, 5 Market Place, Faringdon
Directed by Carole White

Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets: Admission by Programme. £1.50 (Senior Citizens and Children £1.00) Tickets were available from F. B. Wood (newsagents), 4a London Street, Faringdon.

In all the main essentials, this is a true story, and there have been many very popular plays written on the subject; this one as a musical melodrama.

The story concerns the famous nineteenth-century crime in which an innocent young country girl is murdered by a local squire who had earlier seduced her and is now anxious to marry an heiress. Partly through the agency of a gypsy, however, retribution overtakes the villain. Ingeniously telescoped in time and place into one simple setting.

Cast (in order of appearance):

William Corder - David Jackson
Thomas Marten - Dave Headey
Tim Bobbin - Shaun Egan
Johnny Badger - Alan Taylor
Pharos Lee - Martin White
Maria Marten - Brenda Keith-Walker
Mrs Marten - Carolyn Taylor
Anne Marten - Gail Mander
Meg Bobbin - Claire Bottrill
Nell Hatfield - Deirdre Hamley
Petra Andrews - Irene Barron
Rosa Post - Shirley Morriss
Carmen James - Mary Woodyer
Alice Rumble - Emma Woodyer

See programme for further details.

Production No.89 (3 shows were performed over 3 days).

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