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So Great a Crime archive"It's my word against theirs. With the establishment and the press against me, what chance have I got?" Well loved national hero, or predatory paedophile? So Great a Crime tells the true story of "Fighting Mac" - Sir Hector MacDonald - who rose from humble beginnings as a crofter's son through the ranks of the British Army to become a knight of the realm, hero of the Battle of Omdurman and Queen Victoria's favourite general. His active soldiering days over, he was appointed General Officer Commanding in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), but soon finds himself in conflict with the high born elite who run the colony. Allegations of liaisons with young boys surface and MacDonald is forced to return home. Rather than face a court martial, he shoots himself in a Paris hotel. But was he guilty? Or was he the victim of a plot fabricated by an English Establishment, motivated by jealousy and snobbery, at a Gaelic-speaking upstart who got above himself? A fascinating journey into an unsolved historical mystery...

Cast/Performers

Louie Bayliss, Elizabeth Counsell, Lyndam Gregory, Stuart McGugan, Hayward Morse, James Woolley, Philip York

Creatives/Company

Author: David Gooderson
Presented by: D2 & Co (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre)
Director: David Gooderson
Design: Alex Marker
Lighting: Chris Withers
Sound: Max Pappenheim

So Great a Crime

So Great a Crime (Play) production archive for QTIX code T1852463783. Details of all So Great a Crime archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S0675011842

Archive Listings

6 Jan 13
  to
22 Jan 13
Finborough
Inner London, Greater London
Performance Details => Venue archive

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