Arden from Feversam

Maximos Moumouris


This Elizabethan tragedy (1592) by an anonymous playwright deals with the events surrounding the murder of Thomas Arden, which shocked England in 1551.


Maximos Moumouris sought and found inspiration in the bands of players who wandered from village to village moving their audiences with emotions as genuine as they were artless and with a magic borne of the imagination. In the 2009 version of Arden of Feversham, a presenter/compère takes the place of the narrator/crier as master of ceremonies, and the youthful company’s van stands in for the horse-drawn cart; then it pulls into the Scholeion courtyard/stage and the play begins.