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Warden Pie

by

Penny Culliford

Read by awl on Monday 12th November 2007

In a dark passage near the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, a secret lies buried for a hundred years. Three stonemasons arrive to work on a loose paving stone and the secret is released. A place where evil masquerades as good, and the good are driven to evil deeds but everyone gets their just "desserts".

Warden Pie is based on the Victorian parlour tale of Nell Cook.

'For soups, and stews, and choice ragouts, Nell Cook was famous still!
She'd make them even of old shoes, she had such wond'rous skill:
Her manchets fine were quite divine, her cakes were nicely brown'd,
Her boil'd and roast, they were the boast of all the 'Precinct' round;

From The Ingoldsby Legends, by the Rev. Richard H. Barham
   
Purbeck
(M) Age 65
An old stonemason, full of tall stories
 Harry Saks
Troy
(M) Age 45
A master stonemason. Purbeck's lifelong friend.
 Hayward Morse
Gideon
(M) Age 15
Purbeck’s green, young apprentice who is frequently the butt of the two older men’s jokes.
Theo Lloyd-Hughes
Canon John
The Clerk of the Priory (M) Age 45
A ladies’ man, handsome and well aware of his charms. There is more of the bawd-house than the sanctuary in his voice.
 Hayward Morse
Ellen Bean (Nell Cook)
(F) 30
Canon John’s housekeeper. A sweet, trusting young woman who hopes the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
Carole Carpenter
Jane
(F) 20
Canon John’s “niece”. A complete harlot.
 Vicky Williamson
The Abbot
(could be doubled with Canon John)
 Harry Saks
Soldier 1
 Andrew Heart
Soldier 2
Hayward Morse
A Judge
(could be doubled with Purbeck)
Peter Sutton
Sound Effects
Andrew Heart
Directed by
Melissa Docker

 

  

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