After Dark Tales: The Shaming Of Agnes Leaman

Storytelling from the heart returns to the Tom Thumb Theatre.

Scandalnights at the Tom Thumb, hosted by the highly talented Emily Parrish, has been re-born as After Dark Tales, hosted by Roisin Murray, no mean tale-weaver herself. Leaving Kent for wedded bliss in the Lake District, Emily knew she could safely pass on the baton to Roisin, and entrust her with keeping aflame the beacon of exciting and high quality story performance in East Kent.

So, gladly does After Dark Tales open the new season by welcoming Dave Tong, the renowned Yarnsmith of Norwich, with “The Shaming of Agnes Leaman”, a rollicking fusion of factual stories taken from all ‘classes’ of society with fictional stories about beggars, thieves & pedlars, merchants, lords & kings.

In 1561 Agnes Leaman was ducked in the river Wensum in Norwich. She was one of many men and women punished for 'ill rule' and 'evil behaviour'. Theirs were the petty crimes of drunkenness, theft and other misbehaviour. They were real people whose deeds are revealed from court records and the folk stories of long ago