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Mary Webb |
Friday 18 July 2003 |
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 The novelist Mary Webb is as closely identified with the countryside of her native Shropshire as the Brontes with Yorkshire and Thomas Hardy with Dorset.
She was born in 1881 and between 1916 and her early death in 1927, she wrote six novels set in the countryside she loved so much, as well as poems, essays and short stories.
This summer, the Shropshire-based theatre company, Pentabus, is staging playwright Bryony Lavery's adaptation of Mary Webb's most famous novel Precious Bane, in four different outdoor venues around the UK.
They began at Walcot Hall, deep in Mary Webb country, where Judi Herman went to watch the final stages of rehearsal. But first Judi went high into the Shropshire hills, to meet Mary Webb's biographer, Gladys Mary Coles.
Pentabus Theatre Company's production of 'Precious Bane' is at Witley Court, Worcestershire until 20 July, Box Office: 01299 896636. From 25-27 July at Tyntesfield in North Somerset, Box Office: 01985 843601. And from 31 July to 3 August at Welford Park, Near Newbury in Berkshire, Box Office: 01635 46044.
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