LATITUDE FESTIVAL
Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th July
HENHAM PARK, SOUTHWOLD,
SUNRISE COAST, SUFFOLK
Royal Shakespeare Company
Theatre Arena
Sunday 19th July, 2009Theatre Arena
Saturday 18th July, 2009The Royal Shakespeare Company return to Latitude with a new late-night event created especially for the festival.
The RSC are probably the most famous classical theatre company in the world, and are hell-bent on putting living dramatists back at the heart of everything we do. In chucking out a few dead poets in favour of this new breed of living, breathing dramatists we have learned how dangerous it is to disturb the past.
The RSC has joined with the Suffolk Trial Society to collaborate on an event that, whilst respecting our civic responsibility towards ancient sites, allows us to tell a great local story.
In March of this year the archaeologists of the STS unearthed a mass grave within the boundaries of the Latitude site. The unusual arrangement of remains suggested the bodies may once have been Suffolk people convicted of witchcraft. (The STS are the only people in Britain solely committed to the analysis and research of the trials of the mid-seventeenth century.)
In 1645, during the height of the European witch trials, over a hundred people were accused of witchcraft in Suffolk alone, many of them in villages close by... . . . this will be a live event you will want to be a part of .
Click here to find out more about the Suffolk Trial Society
