Travel back in time and join our period costumed characters on a twilight walk in the shadow of the spectacular ruins of Corfe Castle.
Due to the popularity of these walks and for safety reasons, numbers are limited, so book early!
There may be some tickets available on the gate – but for cash only (NO cards).
Performance dates are July 16th, 21st, 23rd & 28th, 30th and August 4th, 6th 2025.
Walks commence 7pm at the North Castle Field – opposite Castle View NT car park just North of the Corfe Castle ruins on the A351. Walk duration will be approximately 90 minutes but we will complete before dark!
Tickets £5 per head (under 5’s free) through www.ticketsource.co.uk/double-act-drama-group soon.
The year is 1834 and George IV rules over a Hanoverian Britain. The industrial revolution has been under way for over 70 years, with all it’s innovation and mechanisation. As a result, the working population has migrated from the countryside agricultural economy to the city based industries. Railways are beginning to take over from the canals that had helped spread much of the industrial revolution.
The Anatomy Act has hopefully ended the Resurrectionists such as Burke & Hare.
The Beer Act has created a proliferation of public beer shops.
Chimney sweeps still use young boys, but reforms now prevent under 14’s being forced up the flues.
Slavery has all but been abolished, but plantation owners in the Indies still seek substantial compensation for losing their slaves.
So it is a time a great political, economic and social reform, but not every body is happy with the changes. The rural workforce is in almost open revolt, with the Swing Rioters protesting against wage cuts and destroying the new machinery.
Parliamentary constituencies have been reformed to eliminate all the 37 Rotten Boroughs around the country, such as Corfe Castle & Wareham, where the few voters were all in the pockets of the land owners who were able to keep the seats in the family or rent them out to the highest bidder.
But now, a prominent local doctor and politician, Sir Phillip Moore, is found shot in the head whilst staying at a local coaching Inn. So a senior member of the newly formed professional police force in London, The Peelers, has been sent to add his deductive reasoning skills to the investigation.
What will he discover in this seething hotbed of radical thinkers?
Can you help solve the murder?!!