An audio adaptation of Frank Holden's one-man play, featuring the historical character of Daniel Woodley Prowse, the police magistrate who was a "cross between Dr. Samuel Johnson and Falstaff."
Set somewhere in outport Newfoundland in the 1890's, written and first performed in the mid 1980's by Frank Holden, Judge Prowse Presiding brings a vital character and a near-forgotten frontier world back to life.
Daniel Woodley Prowse (1834-1914), police magistrate, journalist, sportsman, historian and champion of the common man, was a "cross between Dr. Samuel Johnson and Falstaff." As he rails at both plaintiffs and felons, in his jokes and yarns he revives the excitement and the agonies of his time.
Born in Port de Grave, Newfoundland in 1834 Judge D.W. Prowse is best known as the author of A History of Newfoundland, first published in 1895. A History of Newfoundland is widely hailed as one of the finest histories written about Newfoundland and Labrador.
