Synopsis
A Bad Dream
$12.99
Published by Samuel French Ltd
8 Male 8 Female
It's 1902 and the Bellingford Amateur Dramaticks' next production is to be A Midsummer Night's Dream
But it is a production with a difference, as it is being sponsored by (and therefore controlled by) a local entrepreneur and Henry Irving devotee, Sydney De Lainey
Rehearsals, under De Lainey's tyranny, are awkward and many tensions arise within the company, culminating in De Lainey's brutal murder
The brand-new science of fingerprinting is used to solve the crime during a performance of the Dream and the culprit is arrested
Charming and full of period detail