Coram Boy
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Jamila Gavin’s, 2001 award winning novel, 'Coram Boy' was adapted for the stage and produced at the National Theatre in 2005. It is a play with music, set in England between 1742 and 1751 and based around the Coram Foundling Hospital a home for unwanted children. It is a tense tale full of twists and turns. Over 50 actors multi-role energetically as the action canters between Gloucester cathedral, a country mansion, dark woods, the Coram Hospital and a slave ship on the Thames. 'Coram Boy is the story of Toby, saved from an African ship as a child, and Aaron, the illegitimate son of the heir to a great estate. Their lives are linked by the “Coram Man”, a shady figure who collects abandoned children, supposedly to deliver them to a safe new life at the Coram Hospital. In reality he sells them into slavery, or 'disposes' of them. The boys are bound together in an epic journey, fraught with danger and excitement. The play has disturbing scenes and is rated 12. Price includes refreshmentsLocation
The Ship Theatre
Walthamstow Hall, Holly Bush Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent TN13 3UL
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