The Ballad of Maria Marten

Theatre credits include: as staff director, Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre; and as assistant/associate director, Grenfell: in the words of survivors at the National Theatre. 

Other theatre includes: as assistant/associate director, A Face in the Crowd at the Young Vic; Eureka Day at the Old Vic; TheTaxidermist Daughter at Chichester;  After the End at Stratford East; and Typical Girls for Clean Break; as director,  Prison Plaits for The Tower Theatre; Barbecue for Guildford; Kemi from the Block at Theatre Peckham; Best Fit at Blue Elephant; Essentially Black on UK tour; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot and DNA for Fourth Monkey; and Voices from Prison for Clean Break; and as director and writer, History on the Road for Cockpit; and Trio of Convictionfor Brunel University, Feltham Prison and Downview Prison

For TV: as writer/assistant producer, Big Narstie Show

For Film: as director, Mask, Made in Africa, Loved by the World, Kings, No Second Chances and Lockdown Love

For music videos: ‘Man I Become’, ‘Harami’ and ‘Trippi’n’

Beth Flintoff is a playwright and theatre director.

Her plays include: The Ballad of Maria Marten (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and UK tour, 2020/21); The Glove Thief (2017, commissioned by Tonic Theatre Company as part of their Platform scheme in association with Nick Hern Books); Matilda the Empress (Reading Between the Lines, Reading, 2017) and Greenham: One Hundred Years of War and Peace (a large-scale site specific performance piece performed on Greenham Common in September 2017). 

She was the founding Artistic Director of new-writing fringe ensemble Debut Theatre Company, and was Outreach Director at The Watermill Theatre in Berkshire.

Themes of coercive control and the threat of violence. Discussions of murder, birth, baby loss, grief, sex and methods of contraception. Descriptions of violence. 

This is an amateur production presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. 

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