A PLAY recreating the trial of 18th century Henley murderer Mary Blandy is returning to the stage. Mary Blandy — A Retrial, in which the audience play the.
THE 18th century killer Mary Blandy would have been spared the gallows if she had been tried in a modern court — that was the view of a Henley Theatre aud.
MARY BLANDY’S trial for murder was a scandal that was followed by the whole country over three months. Yet it took an all-male jury just five minutes to f.