Mourning Glory

Archive Listings for Mourning Glory

T1411043701 (GREEN02) A specially updated new version of the show, turning his sensitive but sardonic attention to one of the defining events of the last Century.Performer David Benson.
26 Feb 04	Maltings Arts Centre, St Albans :: V52 listing details L0690016897
25 Feb 04	Hazlitt Arts Centre, Maidstone :: V683 listing details L01260507351
12 Nov 02 to 14 Nov 02	Greenwich Theatre, Outer London :: V308 listing details L858936260
T1465428355 (JERM00) Director Ashley Russell. Producer Big Bad Bear.
5 Jun 00 to 8 Jul 00	Jermyn Street Theatre, Inner London :: V207 listing details L332061837

Details

Play :: Based on the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales. The show was first performed in 1998 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and also ran in January 1999, at the Sydney Opera House, as part of the Sydney Festival. In September 1997 the entire country ground to a halt for the Funeral of the Century. They said that 'nothing would ever be the same again' yet only five years later, the events of that day and the week leading up to it have taken on a surreal vagueness. Who can now remember which celebrity mourners showed up to pay their respects at Westminster Abbey? What unprecedented gesture did the Queen make as the coffin passed the front door? And just who, if anyone, was responsible for Diana's death, anyway?

Author

David Benson