Dick Turpin's Last Ride

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T1522436002 (TRBURY11) Age 10+Company Theatre Royal Company Bury St Edmunds. Music Pat Whymark. Director Abigail Anderson. Performer Jack Lord (Dick Turpin). Performer Julian Harries (William Harrison). Performer Richard Pepper (Thomas Kyll). Performer Morgan Philpott (Richard Bayes). Performer Loren O'Dair (Black Bess).
15 Nov 11 to 19 Nov 11	Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne :: V665 listing details L0683918202
8 Nov 11 to 10 Nov 11	New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich :: V81 listing details L0379557815
1 Nov 11 to 5 Nov 11	Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L1559615734
11 Oct 11 to 15 Oct 11	Nuffield Theatre, Southampton :: V776 listing details L0537457681
6 Oct 11 to 8 Oct 11	Theatre Royal and Opera House, Wakefield :: V979 listing details L1371798945
15 Sep 11 to 24 Sep 11	Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L933327188
Other listings
27 Sep 11 to 1 Oct 11	Greenwich Theatre, Outer London :: V308 listing details L426971589

Details

Play :: Dashing horseman, daring robber, swashbuckling swordsman, adored by every woman, respected by every man. Or poacher, rapist, thief and murderer, swung from the York gallows in 1739. What do you want to believe? A dynamic new version of the life of Dick Turpin, the most famous highwayman of them all. Drawn from court transcripts, newspaper reports and eye witness accounts this is a real life adventure story from the eighteenth century. Moving at a rip-roaring pace, the play interweaves fact and fiction, text and song. You ll discover things about the man behind the myth that some wanted buried with him at York.

Author

Daniel O'Brien