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Bowled over by literary ‘celebs’ at cricket match
Friday 4th June 2010, 3:44PM BST.
The village of Broadway in the Cotswolds is hosting a celebrity cricket match with a literary twist
Britain’s first celebrity cricket match will be revived this summer as the finale of the Broadway Arts Festival in the Cotswolds.
The match between Peter Pan author JM Barrie’s celebrated literary team, the Allahakbarries, and American actress and heart-throb Mary Anderson’s Cotswolds team of creative types – which first took place in 1897 – will be recreated on Sunday, June 20.
JM Barrie’s team of famous writers included at various times Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, AA Milne, who wrote the Winnie-the-Pooh stories, PG Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome, all of whom travelled the country indulging their passion for cricket.
JM Barrie became friends with a group of Broadway artists during the mid-1890s.
The mainly American painters colonised the village every summer to relax and be inspired by quintessential rural English village life.
Barrie was particularly fond of Broadway-based Shakespearian actress Mary Anderson de Navarro, the Raquel Welch of her day, who challenged Barrie and his team to a cricket match on Broadway’s village green.
He accepted the challenge. Mary captained her team of locals, who included the famous artists Alfred Parsons, Frank Millet, Edwin Abbey, George Boughton, Fred Barnard and Edwin Blashfield.
Broadway artist Jeremy Houghton, who is leading the re-enactment, said, “The match turned out to be a hard fought battle and the winning team to this day is still disputed.
“The pedigree of the artists and writers in both teams was incredible and goes to show how influential Broadway is in the UK’s cultural history.”
Jeremy has put together a team of artist cricketers who will challenge Mary’s grandson Michael de Navarro’s Broadway team.
By Jim Walsh
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