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Oubliette

Short Play, Drama  /  9w, 6m, 9any gender (adult)

David Foxton

Oubliette
by David Foxton

A tour guide is taking a group of visitors around a 12th-century manor and brings them to a mysterious room with no windows or doors, an "oubliette", from the French for "to forget". Unknown to the present-day tourists, they are accompanied in the ro…

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    9w, 6m, 9any gender (adult)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period, Docudrama/Historic

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Summary
A tour guide is taking a group of visitors around a 12th-century manor and brings them to a mysterious room with no windows or doors, an "oubliette", from the French for "to forget". Unknown to the present-day tourists, they are accompanied in the room by Anne who lived in the manor 500 years previously as a servant girl to its lord, James Darlow. She is soon joined by a group of other servants who have been stealing from their master, and by Susan Makem, an eccentric loner rumoured to be a witch. As the story unfolds the reason for the "oubliette" becomes clear.
Cast Attributes
Anne Marston, Cath, Alison, Meg Warren, Jane, Liz, Rebecca, Mary Morton, Susan Makem, servant girls.
Simon, a servant boy.
James Darlow, the lord of the manor.
Richard Darlow, his brother.
Pastor Arnold.
Dr Allenby.
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  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting A room in a 12th-century manor house
  • Features Period Costumes

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