The Duke In The Cupboard
This amateur production is presented in association with Southbank Communications.
Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th June
Evenings 7:30pm & Saturday matinee 2.30pm
- A Halifax Thespians Main Stage Production
On 2 August 1961, Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington, which had been saved for the nation by a special treasury grant, was put on display at The National Gallery in London.
Nineteen days later it was stolen. Four years after the theft, Kempton Bunton, a 61-year-old unemployed former bus driver from Benwell, Newcastle, baffled Scotland Yard detectives by confessing to the theft.
Had this heavily built, antisocial, bespectacled Geordie really outwitted the gallery’s sophisticated security?
The case sparked a national sensation and Susan Wear wrote the play after reading secret Director of Public Prosecution papers relating to the case.
The recent film versionstarred Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.
