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Cooking up a recipe for murder
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Stuff of Dreams Theatre Company serve a new and dramatic dish
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‘The Poisoners Pact’
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The Granary Theatre, Wells-next-the-sea
on Friday 17th April 2015
at 7.30pm
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Sedgeford Village Hall
on Friday 1st May 2015
at 7.30pm
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St. George’s Theatre, Great Yarmouth
on Saturday 2nd May 2015
at 7.30pm
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with support from the arts and community development charity Creative Arts East.
Based on true life events at Burnham Market in the 1830s, the play relates the story of the last two women to be hanged in Norfolk. Catherine Frary and Frances Billings were found guilty of murder on several counts, dispatching their hapless victims by mixing arsenic into tasty dumplings, and were publicly hanged for their crimes in 1835.
Using recipes and songs, the murderesses tell their own story, in what they considered to be simply a matter of “Good Housekeeping”.
This event is organised in partnership with Creative Arts East with funding by Norfolk County Council, Arts Council England and North Norfolk District Council.
For further information on this and other Creative Arts East events please go to http://www.creativeartseast.co.uk/whats-on/ or contact Karen Kidman on 01953 713390 or [email protected]
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