The Amazing Story of Henry & Susanna Theatre & Performing Arts


This is a historical and factual story scripted, told sand performed by actors in full costume. It is an amazing adventure, love story.

Stage Play The Amazing Story of Henry & Susanna Written by Vince Gregory for WMT March 2014
This play is based on and includes historical notes about the case of Henry Cable and Susanna Holmes who, in 1783 were both separately charged on different days, for theft in Norfolk. These charges were made at the Thetford court assizes and so they were sentenced to hang until dead. But they were both spared and their sentences commuted to transportation to the new colonies.
They first met in the Norwich Castle Gaol and despite the squalor of their living conditions they built a close relationship in the years they awaited transportation. Indeed, they even had a child born to them in that time and place. However, when it came to the time for their transportation, they were separated and the child was forced from its mother’s arms whilst she boarded the prison Hulk where she waited in even worse squalor, to be transported to Australia, alone.
Our play is a story, telling how the compassion of the Turnkey, John Simpson, and the charity of others, reunited the couple. It tells how theirs was the first court case to be heard and the first wedding to take place, in the new found land of Australia. It shows that from the historical notes that Henry was probably the first person, and certainly the first prisoner to set foot on the cove we now call Sydney Harbour. It is indeed an amazing story of how two young teenagers, Henry from Mendham, then in Suffolk and Susanna from Thurlton, in Norfolk, should end up being a large family with a successful business in Australia, all of which still thrives today.

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Date(s)26 Aug 2017
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VenueMendham Village Hall
AddressWithersdale Street, Mendham, Suffolk,
IP200JN

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Event Details

Date26 Aug 2017
Time(s)7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Cost£9.00
VenueMendham Village Hall
Withersdale Street
Mendham
Suffolk
IP200JN
Phone0786 100 3248
CategoryTheatre & Performing Arts


Vince Gregory

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