CAINSMARSH

Science Fiction Drama. 5M, 1F. Based on H.G. Wells’ “THE CROQUET PLAYER.” 1939. Georgie Frobisher, a champion croquet player, is staying with his wealthy aunt, Miss Frobisher, at the tony Perona Springs Hotel and Spa set high up on a cliff overlooking the French seaside town of Les Noupets, Normandy. While sitting on the terrace, Georgie meets a charismatic stranger, Dr. Finchatton, who tells him a ghost story...

Science Fiction Drama. 5M, 1F. Based on H.G. Wells’ “THE CROQUET PLAYER.” 1939. Georgie Frobisher, a champion croquet player, is staying with his wealthy aunt, Miss Frobisher, at the tony Perona Springs Hotel and Spa set high up on a cliff overlooking the French seaside town of Les Noupets, Normandy. While sitting on the terrace, Georgie meets a charismatic stranger, Dr. Finchatton, who tells him a ghost story about a remote English village in the Fenlands, called Cainsmarsh, where the locals have suddenly turned vicious, hating one another, bludgeoning animals, and beating their children. After consulting with a renowned psychiatrist named Dr. Norbert, he learns of a toxic cloud drifting across the Channel to Europe, creating an outbreak of Fascism. CAINSMARSH is a ghost story with an eerily prophetic parallel to the pandemic-stricken world of today.

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CAINSMARSH

GEORGE FROBISHER - 33. White. A champion croquet player.
MISS FROBISHER - 50. White or Black. His Aunt Bella, a wealthy Suffragette. Also plays the Vicar's Wife, and Face of a Woman.
DR. FINCHATTON - 38. White or Black. A handsome, haunted general practitioner.
THE VICAR - 75. White. A curmudgeonly Calvinist reverend. Also plays the Patient, Bike Messenger.
THE MUSEUM CURATOR - 60. White. A world-renowned archaeologist. Also plays the French Waiter, and the Creature.
DR. NORBERT - 60. White or Black. An overbearing psychiatrist. Also plays the Farmer.