How would you feel if your marriage was arranged behind your back?
What would you do if you were blackmailed into fear?
What if your life was a charade kept from others’ prying eyes?
Set in the restrictive world of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly society of the 1860s, the passionate and progressive young teacher Baptista Trewethen suddenly finds herself the victim of a carefully-orchestrated marriage. Baptista has dreams of a happy and fulfilling future in the modern world. Instead, she must marry a dialect-spouting grotesque Scillonian fisherman. Thus, in a moment of mazed madness, she finds herself making an unexpected decision which will change her life forever. The interlude she creates leads her first to steamy passion and then to having all hope lost. Along the way, she encounters God’s Wonderful Railway, leaking luggers, sharp-clawed lobsters, and a risky world in which play is no longer a game.
Presented with BishBashBosh’s usual flair and physicality, Celticity and history, this moving new drama takes us on a rollercoaster journey, fraught with challenge, crime and heart-felt passion. As ever, Kent’s script is filled with delightful decadence, stunning narrative and fantastic Cornu-English, welded together to make a tale that will lift you as high as St Michael’s Mount, and as low as Davy Jones’ deepest locker…
It is something we have all done: a moment of madness, a play for passion, a mere interlude.
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