Barrie Jaimeson - Tales from Maldon

Tales From Maldon
An evening of stories including research into The Essex Witch Trials; an MR James Ghost Story; The Battle of Maldon (in modern English) followed by JRR Tolkien’s play about the aftermath of the battle.

BARRIE JAIMESON was born in Leicester and moved to London to attend Drama School. Many years of treading the boards in theatres including Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, both the Old Vic and the Young Vic and across the country followed, as well as TV and film roles, including Bergerac, Tales of the Unexpected, The Bill and Pie in The Sky. He met his wife whilst appearing in Woody Allen’s ‘Play It Again, Sam’ in Keswick and before long, they had moved to the Essex countryside, both still carrying on their acting careers. They started a theatre company, ‘macTheatre’ when they arrived in Maldon, producing many shows including Maldon’s annual ‘Shakespeare in the Park’ for over a decade, as well as musical shows written for Christmas and Burns’ Night and a show with songs inspired by paintings called ‘Songs from the Art’
Barrie has been writing fiction for some time and published his first novel, ‘The Commercial’ in 2014. Since then, he has published a further nine books. In 2021 he started the Anne Edwards Series about a detective based in Maldon, Essex.