MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
Production Date: October 1996
Directed by: Keith Jefferies
Playwright: T S Elliot
Genre: Poetic Drama
Group: BHTC
Staged: St Andrews Church, Burgess Hill
Synopsis:
Murder In The Cathedral portrays the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. The action takes place between December 2nd and December 29th 1170, chronicling the days leading up to the martyrdom of Thomas Becket following his absence of seven years in France, whose internal struggle is the main thrust of the play. Having come into conflict with secular authority, Archbishop Becket is visited by a succession of tempters, three of whom parallel the Temptations of Christ. Beckett responds to all of the tempters and specifically addresses the immoral suggestions of the fourth tempter at the end of the first act.
PLAYWRIGHT: T. S. Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965),
was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948.
MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL
BHTC Production Number: 137
Anthony Hole
David Downer
Jim Towell
John Poulson
Alec Anthon, Jim Clark
Leon Figg & Anthony White
Deborah Baldwin, Elizabeth Batten,
Shirley Carter, Mary House, Mary Jupp,
Pamela Jefferies, Jackie Lander,
Lisa Lawton, Karen Lodge, Maureen Thomas, Jo White, Pearl White
Sheila Wells
Keith Jefferies
Vickie Josephs
Cast
Margaret Coveney
Jeremy Hole
Michael Chapman
Geoff Twyman & Terry Thompsett
Elizabeth Batten
Vickie Josephs
Leon Figg
Rick & Melanie Peckham
Crew
Archbishop Thomas Becket
Priest
Priest
Priest
Tempters/
Murderers
Women of Canterbury
Solo Speaker
Messenger
Attendant
Stage Manager
Lighting
Sound Effects
Set Design & Construction
Wardrobe
Properties
Swords & Scabbards
Box Office & Front of House
