Winner of the 2005 Patrick White Award and the New York Dramatists award, this finely etched play promises a “dark and stormy night in the theatre” (Sun Herald). Constance Drinkwater, two of her daughters and a demented priest are the last surviving remnants of an attempt to settle an isolated and unforgiving area on Cape York as the 19th century draws to a close. With her husband, her servants and five of her daughters dead, Lady Constance battles to hold on to the trappings of decency and the illusion of safety.
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