DATE: Friday 9 May
TIME: 6pm
AT: Former St Andrew's Church, Court Street
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Come one, come all, to the Trial of Ben Hall,
The Forbes Shire Council Heritage Advisory Committee will be presenting the play The Trial of Ben Hall written by Forbes solicitor Dominic Williams.
To be held on Friday 9 May – 188 years after the notorious Hall was born and 160 years since his death on 5 May. The play will be peformed in the former St Andrews Church at 6pm.
Ben Hall was of course shot dead without a trial and is buried at Forbes Cemetery and this is the imagined trial had one taken place, with jurors from the audience to help deliver a verdict.
Forbes Shire Council Heritage Advisory Committee were the inspiration for bringing Ben Hall back to commemorate 160 since his death. Several other committee members and community volunteers will be in the play.
The audience will be encouraged to fully participate in the evening. We need you to react to the good and bad, to the police bias and inequity in the court process. It will be a great night out for the whole family to enjoy.
Tea and refreshment will be served while the jury deliberates – no one knows the outcome of the judgment until the night.
Everyone is encouraged to come along and find out the imagined past if Ben Hall had been given a trial and discover more about our notorious bushranger.
In Dominic’s words, “...Ben Hall whose name continues to grow in Australian legend as a folklore hero, more wronged against than wrong himself. I trust the Trial of Ben Hall will not only entertain and educate but lead to a better understanding of the enigma that was Ben Hall – it being the trial that Ben Hall never received. (April 1986)