Saturday 12th November at 7pm. Tickets £10 (£8 concessions)
Harpur Suite, Bedford Corn Exhcange
An original one-man play, written and performed by Michael Prior, creating the characters of Oliver Cromwell and King Charles I, two very different men. It is almost like a conversation, each man pushing the action forward, telling his own side of the story.
In truth, the Puritan Cromwell on his own is heavy going; but add in the King!…and the whole play is transformed, lightens up, becomes human, much more interesting. The whole story suddenly makes sense.
Cromwell and the King speak in dramatic and human terms of their own, deeply held, personal beliefs, beliefs that put them on a collisions course and split the nation asunder.
After the Civil war the King is executed, but why? What happened after his death? What did Cromwell leave to the nation, what was his legacy? What was it all about??
This play tells you.
The strangest thing is that once Cromwell was dead, and King Charles II restored to the throne, it was almost as if Cromwell and the Puritans had never been. The truth is the English are not profoundly religious. They are a fun-loving nation, and they embraced the Restoration, with all its fun and frolic, as if welcoming back an old friend. England was herself again.
Tickets can be bought online from the Corn Exchange box office, in person from the box office at the Harpur Suite, Bedford, just next to Bedford Central Library or by phoning 01234 718044.
Opening Hours for the Box Office are:
Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm
Saturday 10am – 1pm
Sunday – CLOSED
