(Drama: Marw Merthyr ')
A play by Gwyn Jones , dealing with the persecution and death of John Penry
Production by Dafydd Gruffydd
Characters
Mistress Penry of Cefnbrith
John Penry
Penry of Cefnbrith
John Whitgift , Archbishop of Canterbury
Richard Carey
Henry Sharpe
Eleanor Penry
Henry Godtey
Job Throkmorton , of Haseley,
Warwickshire
Robert Kittredge
Humfrey Newman
Edmund Logan , Edinburgh
Joseph Cartwright
Henry Lewis
George Johnson
Arthur Bellott
The Lord Chief Justice
Master Gittens , Keeper of the Poultry
Compter and Servants, clerks, soldiers, prisoners, etc.
The play begins in 1589, at Cefnbrith, in Wales, and ends in 1593, in the Poultry Compter Prison,
London
(Canu'r Cyfnos)
Soothing melodies - old and new - at the end of the day with Betty Hewitt
Mai Jones
Haydn Adams
Lyn Joshua
Cliff Earnshaw
The BBC Welsh Septet (Directed by Frank Thomas) and Male Chorus
(Arrangements by Idloes Owen)
Devised by Mai Jones
Produced by Glyn Jones