Perkin Warbeck -
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the story
A kingdom at peace after a 100 years of war, a king on the throne with dubious claims, plots, suspicion and treachery and news spreads that a handsome young prince has returned, long thought dead, to claim his rightful throne.
However, this is no fairytale but one of England’s great lost true stories.
A tale about identity, corruption and ‘spin’, of loyalties bought and friendships broken, of innocence condemned and the guilty set free. And all in the name of ‘peace’. Perkin Warbeck explores the nature of kingship and how power is gained, held and wielded. It examines how power can be abused, how economics sway allegiances and how injustice can be legitimised in the name of the greater good. This is a morality tale about integrity and how honesty and truth can come from the most unlikely of people.
However, this is no fairytale but one of England’s great lost true stories.
A tale about identity, corruption and ‘spin’, of loyalties bought and friendships broken, of innocence condemned and the guilty set free. And all in the name of ‘peace’. Perkin Warbeck explores the nature of kingship and how power is gained, held and wielded. It examines how power can be abused, how economics sway allegiances and how injustice can be legitimised in the name of the greater good. This is a morality tale about integrity and how honesty and truth can come from the most unlikely of people.
those involvedThe work done to date has been hugely successful in no small part to these performers:
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project on holdThe performs involved gave up a great deal of time in the initial stages of this project to help make it what it was. When it came to the 6 days needed to do the concentrated work on the text, prior to the 'work-in-progress' performance at The Cockpit, London, we wanted to ensure they were paid for their work.
Sadly, funding was not forthcoming at that time, consequently the project has been put on hold until such time as the performers can rightly be paid for the stage of the development. |