Moll Flanders, Gala, Durham From: The Northern Echo | Date: October 12, 2005| Author: | Copyright 2005 The Northern Echo. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

THIS bold production by KAOS Theatre Company is described as an "eyepopping account of one woman's journey through poverty, prostitution, pick pocketing and penitence". It's certainly not for the faint-hearted - nor, for that matter, young children or anyone easily offended.

The action starts with Moll's mother, a poor prostitute and thief, languishing in Newgate jail. She avoids the hangman's noose by pleading pregnancy, but without the means to support her child, must give her up. After a spell with the gypsies, young Moll is taken in by a well-heeled family, and an affair with one of the ...

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