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Melodrama 1998

MasksPainswick Dramatic Society

is proud to present

An Evening of Victorian Melodrama

 

One Month To Pay or The Sailor’s Return

Tremble in trepidation for Alice, a virtuous but penniless Heroine, as she faces Eviction and defends her Honour against the heartless and lustful Squire Meadows. Will her seafaring Husband Tom return Home from Distant Shores with their Fortune in time? Will Alice resist the Squire’s Advances? Will she be thrown out into the Cold Night or into a Warm Bed?

&

The Drunkard’s Wife or The Tables Turned

Prepare to shed your tears as Millie, another virtuous but penniless Heroine struggles against the lustful Advances of the Wicked Sir Eustace, whilst her drunkard Husband Willie is consumed by the Demon Drink.. Will Virtue triumph? Will Millie save her Willie? Whose round is it, anyway?

 

At 7.30 p.m. in The Painswick Institute

Friday, 25th and Saturday, 26th of September, 1898

God Save The Queen!

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