The Wicked Lady

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An stage adaptation of the original novel, The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall. Lady Barbara Skelton is beautiful, wild and truly wicked. Forced into a respectable marriage with a man she cant love, she soon becomes bored and embarks on a secret life of gambling, highway robbery and murder. But shes playing a dangerous game. Shadowed by betrayal, threatened by revenge, can Barbara escape her wicked life Or will she be abandoned to her terrible fate The Wicked Lady is in production until 25th July 2009 at the New Vic Theatre (Newcastle-under-Lyme), directed by Theresa Heskins.

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Byrony Laveny has been hailed as "one of the UK's most important playwrights" by the Observer. Her other erecent plays include Frozen and adaptations of The Magic Toyshop and Behind the Scenes at the Museum. Her adaptation of the Finnish play Cherished Disappointments in Loce is also published by Oberon Books amd available from TCG.