Martyn Wade 's play presents Grimes as a much darker and more sinister figure than the hero of Benjamin Britten 's opera set in a 19th-century Suffolk fishing village. The death of young boys in Grimes' care is investigated by the poet
George Crabbe , whose poem The Borough was the inspiration for the opera. with Richard Pearce , Gavin Muir , David Jarvis , Elaine Claxton , Tina Gray ,Deborah Berlin and Neville Jason. Director Cherry Cookson Rpt