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VenueStantonbury Theatre
TownMilton Keynes
CountyBuckinghamshire
From23rd June 2023
To23rd June 2023
When19:30
Stantonbury Theatre (V752)
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  • Date of change: 14 Jun 23 - T1375636272

Hidden Stories - Now You See Me/Darlint Peidi

Work:: Hidden Stories (S529861707)

Hidden Stories looks at stories not told or stories where we have a particular accepted version, but there is often more to say.

Production:: Now You See Me/Darlint Peidi (T1375636272)

Now You See Mee - The hidden story of Ruth Ellis, The last woman to be hanged in England. The year was 1955. Ruth Ellis openly admitted to the murder of her lover, David Blakley, who she shot at the Magdala pub in London. What is little known though is that Blakley was violent and controlling... Her case led to changes in the law recognising the defence of diminished responsibility. Why didn't she want a reprieve? Darlint Peidi - Edith Thompson was executed in 1923 for the murder of her husband Percy alongside her young lover Freddie Bywaters. Edith apparently knew nothing about the plan to murder her husband and Bywaters always maintained he acted alone. But Thompson was older than him and seen as an immoral seducer... Was she executed for adultery rather that murder? A victim of the social climate of the time? If she had lived through the swinging sixties, would society have judged her differently?
Author Carly Halse (Now You See Me)
Author Rosemary Hill (Darlint Peidi)

Listing:: L01832737358




Now You See Me/Darlint Peidi

Now You See Mee - The hidden story of Ruth Ellis, The last woman to be hanged in England. The year was 1955. Ruth Ellis openly admitted to the murder of her lover, David Blakley, who she shot at the Magdala pub in London. What is little known though is that Blakley was violent and controlling... Her case led to changes in the law recognising the defence of diminished responsibility. Why didn't she want a reprieve? Darlint Peidi - Edith Thompson was executed in 1923 for the murder of her husband Percy alongside her young lover Freddie Bywaters. Edith apparently knew nothing about the plan to murder her husband and Bywaters always maintained he acted alone. But Thompson was older than him and seen as an immoral seducer... Was she executed for adultery rather that murder? A victim of the social climate of the time? If she had lived through the swinging sixties, would society have judged her differently?

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