Exeter Drama Company

Community Theatre

The Holly and the Ivy

The Mayerling Affair, written by R F Delderfield, is about a doomed royal romance, set in a lavish palace. The heir to the throne, married to a woman he now despises, is desperate to be free of her to marry the woman he loves.

The Monarch, who refuses to accept the existence of the mistress, demands that duty to the throne be paramount. There are the friends and the servants of both parties acting as go-betweens in a dangerous game that could easily become treason and treachery and there is the press who know that something is afoot behind the stern veneer of the palace.

This may all sound rather familiar, but this Royal Family are not the Windsor’s, they are the Hapsburg’s, for this is Austria in 1888, and leading to a chain of events that will lead only to misery, despair and death.

Jenny Gregory Sarah Ramsay
David Paterson Edward Heeley
Rev Martin Gregory John Clotworthy
Michael Gregory Nigel Banyard
Aunt Bridget Diana Phillips
Aunt Lydia Meg Henkus
Richard Wyndham Ian Guy
Margaret Gregory Margaret Addison
Directed by Pat Daine
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