Clotworthy goes on trial with new production
Published Date:
02 September 2008
CLOTWORTHY Arts Centre once again presents the best of national touring theatre in September as Guy Masterson Productions presents Follow Me - a dramatisation of the final moments of the beautiful party girl, Ruth Ellis, famed for the cold, unrepented murder of her lover... and for being the last woman in Britain to be hanged.
A smash hit at Edinburgh 2007, Adelaide and Brighton Festivals 2008, this is a gem of theatre about a very English way of life... and death.
Follow Me takes us into the worlds of the hanged and the hangman in the moments leading to Ellis' execution.
Explaining her motives yet showing no remorse, she draws us into the mindset of one driven to commit the ultimate crime.
Albert Pierrepoint, her hangman and the ultimate professional, but one who increasingly feels the moral pressure and growing public distaste for capital punishment and now plagued by doubts about the value of his life's work and the craft he has mastered, explains the mechanisms, both physical and psychological, of being a pub landlord by night and a public executioner by day.
Follow Me will be at Clotworthy Arts Centre on Thursday, September 18 at 7.30pm.
Tickets cost £8/£6 concession and are available from Clotworthy reception on 028 9448 1338.
The full article contains 219 words and appears in Antrim Times newspaper.
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Last Updated:
01 September 2008 10:46 AM
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Source:
Antrim Times
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Location:
ANTRIM
