A complex and thought-provoking play juxtaposing the last few days of the year 1799 (the eve of a new century, whence the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics) with the year 1999 - a year of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering... And in the cellar of the same house a dark secret buried for 200 years... Featuring fictional interplay between local historical figure Armstrong and Roget (of thesaurus fame) the play switches between telling the stories of two families occupying the same house 200 years apart.

WRITTEN BY SHELAGH STEPHENSON DIRECTED BY COLIN SHAW

Presented at the Little Theatre 3rd to 8th June 2002 CAST PHOTOGRAPH BELOW

CAST JOHN WOODS JAMES BELL DAWN MURRAY SARAH DAVIES PAULINE CAMPBELL IAN JOHNSON SYLVIA BERTIE

The cast (shown here in rehearsal) included Dawn Murray, Pauline Campbell, James Bell, Sarah Davies, Ian Johnston, John Woods, and Sylvia Bertie (not shown)