Lucy (Ballad of Maria Marten)

Question 1

MARIA: What are you doing?

Answer 1

Starting a fire

Question 2

MARIA: Why?

Answer 2

Yesterday I got it wrong

Question 3

MARIA: My mistress gets the boy to keep the fire going all night.

Answer 3

I don’t have a mistress I have a mother

Uh-oh That’s Sarah Stowe and her cosuin peopbe, with their horrible friend. Don’t worry strange girl I will protect you from their villany.

Question 4

MARIA: We’re trying to start a fire becuase this girl has a horrible mother.

Answer 4

No I don’t Shhhh

Question 5

PHEOBE: Hello Maria what are you up to?

Answer 5

You know them?

Question 6

SARAH: Lucy Baalham? Youre the constables neice ain’t you

Answer 6

So what if I am? I can’t help it

Question 7

SARAH: Your uncle had my father thrown in goal becuase you reported him drunk

Answer 7

If you hurt me god will see–

Question 8

THERESA: Maria-we have to vote on new members.

Answer 8

What club?

Question 9

MARIA: it’s called the hazard club, where we do strange and dangerous things. Pheobe swalloed a frog once

PHEOBE: Maria!

Answer 9

I never heard of nothing like that

Question 10

MARIA: The vicor said there was merriment and whoring

Answer 10

What’s whoring

Question 11

THEARESA: It’s when men shout ‘hooray’ lots of times

Answer 11

Ohhh–Why do you want me to join

Question 12

MARIA: Becuase you’re brave. And that’s important

Answer 12

I am?

Question 13

MARIA: Theresa’s is holding her breathe for a really long timme underwater.

Answer 13

What’s yours

Question 14

SARAH: She can read

Answer 14

Properly?

Question 15

MARIA: Do you want to join our club?

Answer 15

Yes Pleeeease!

Question 16

All put hands in the center

Answer 16

The Hazard Club!!!!

Question 17

MARIA: Thing is, money’s tight at home, I mean right tight.

Answer 17

Maria the richest treasure a woman can posses is her virtue

Question 18

Act 2

MARIA: Nobody knows yet

Answer 18

You were definetely flirting

Question 19

MARIA: D’you want him yourself?

Answer 19

William Corder is my employer. I am his mother servant

Question 20

MARIA: He’s handsome though

Answer 20

Maria (hush)

He stares at me (wisper)

Question 21

MARIA: Lucy Baalham, you are a beautiful young woman, of course he stares. He’s a man

Answer 21

You never listen to what I say.
I have to go. There’ll be gleaning at dawn

Question 22

SARAH: Someone’s happy at any rate

Answer 22

Is everyone else done? Because I’m happy to take the rest

Question 23

MARIA: But my body has already told me that I am late. Far too late

Answer 23

I’ve just been sacked

Question 24

MARIA: Why?

Answer 24

Mrs. Corder found out about you two and that I knew and didnt tell her. She says I’m disloyal.

Question 25

MARIA: I’ll speak to William-

Answer 25

Did you ever stop to think what this would be like me. Being told by him that one day you could be my mistress.

Question 26

MARIA: The thing is-I can’t leave him

Answer 26

Then good luck to you both, but your on your own

Question 27

MARIA: I think I’m in trouble

Answer 27

So what? Do you ever stop to think about the trouble you’re causing?

Question 28

PHEOBE: You didn’t go to the trial today then?
Me either

Answer 28

I’m trying to remeber what she looked like. I can’t see her face.

Question 29

PHEOBE: That’s what death does. I like to rember the dancing. The Cherry Fair?

Answer 29

I do not wish to be comforted by you

Question 30

PHEOBE: Me?

Answer 30

Yes. No. Not by you.

Question 31

PHEOBE: I just caught sight of you from my window, that’s why I came. To see if you were alright.

Answer 31

You never asked before. None of you ever did.

Question 32

PHEOBE: Right then (standing) I’ll be on my way

Answer 32

You saw her body.You saw the bones, and the skull. You gave him the spade.

Question 33

PHEOBE: Yeah

Answer 33

How can you bear it. How are you even breathe.

Question 34

PHEOBE: My greif is none of your buisness

Answer 34

I don’t see your greif. I don;t see/any

Question 35

PHEOBE: You told her you didn’t want to see her again-we all knew that

Answer 35

Of course I didn’t-she was-

Question 36

PHEOBE: I’m not even sure I want to know

Answer 36

No ever like me. I’m not smart. Not witty, or clever, I don’t wear nice clothes. I don;t even have friends really-and dont pretend you’re all my friends because I know you’re not. You’re just hounoring the memory of what we were.

William used to to talk to me late into the night about the farm and his worries for the harvest. He was kind. He was different around me. One day in the parlour he grabbed my hand and said he was going to finish with Maria and marry me. We kissed. And I let him go. I thought it was a miracale-this tidal wave of joy

I went home, spent the whole nigh planning for the future. In the morning I packed a bag and took it to work.

And he behaved as if nothing had ever happend. When I tried to speak to him, he said he had o idea what I was talking about. He said it with such confidence that I began to think him right

Trust is he didn’t even care for me

He didn’t even care enough to kill me

Question 37

PHEOBE: Lucy-

Answer 37

I know I disgust myself

Question 38

PHEOBE: He was the devil- he made you feel like that

Answer 38

If he was the devil. I was tempted and I fell

I have to give evidence an the trial

Question 39

PHEOBE: We can help send him down

Answer 39

For the defence

Question 40

PHEOBE: What?

Answer 40

I am one of his character witnesses

Question 41

PHEOBE: Don’t stick up for him-

Answer 41

“He was always a kind and good natured man.” That’s what hiss lawyer has told me to say