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"The Cracked Pot"
The play was first performed by the Northern Broadsides company at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, in February 1995, with Barrie Rutter, John Branwell, Kate Rutter and June Broughton among the cast. A version of Heinrich von Kleist's Der Zerbrochene Krug, normally translated as ‘The Broken Jug', The Cracked Pot shifts the action from eighteenth-century Utrecht to Skipton, circa 1810. The plot concerns the breaking of a jug – its owner, Martha, believes the guilty party to be her daughter's fiancé, and she wants the local judge, Adam, to have him convicted. But there are strong hints that Adam himself is to blame, and we watch him desperately shifting suspicion away from himself. Unfortunately for Adam, a visiting magistrate from Manchester is watching, too – will Adam get away with it? Kleist's comedy has echoes of Oedipus, where the hero conducting the investigation is himself guilty of the crime, but the tone is resolutely comic. After its run at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 1995, the play went on tour the following year – and was revived again in 2001, when it toured with Oedipus
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Booking Your TicketsTickets are priced at £5 (£4 for students) and can be ordered by 'phone from our box office (01777 817275) or by e-mail ev.players@tinyonline.co.uk . When ordering, please let us know the numbers of full price and student tickets and the appropriate night's performance. Please provide a 'phone number. You can then collect and pay for your tickets at the door on the night of the performance. Everton is situated on the A631, 3 miles east of Bawtry. A detailed map, showing our location, together with some general information about the village can be found on our location page.
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