Arthur and George by David Edgar
from the novel by Julian Barnes

Mon 11 - Sat 16 June 2012
Directed by Matthew Salisbury

'A mystery that confounded the police'

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Arthur Conan Doyle, that titan of popular detective fiction, needs little introduction. Edalji, on the other hand, was a humble Anglo-Indian solicitor who worked in Birmingham but lived in Great Wyrley, and who was arrested, tried and imprisoned in 1903 for an attack on a pit-pony at night-time in fields around Great Wyrley, just outside the city. The two men’s paths crossed in 1907, when Conan Doyle, appalled by the facts of the case, set about campaigning to prove Edalji’s innocence.
"The achievement of David Edgar is to have created an evening that involves you in the whodunnit aspect of the case." The Telegraph

(By arrangement with Nick Hern Books. An amateur production.)
Julian Barnes was the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for The Sense of an Ending.