Little Dipping's Great Experiment

By Zara Kinzett


Characters

Cast List:

  • Lady Georgiana Peevery, This week's hostess and eldest daughter of the Earl of Peeverly
  • Lady Victoria Burberry, Georgiana's Best friend
  • Gregory Peevery, Georgiana's twin brother and heir to Peeverly
  • Sir Albert Ferndale, Gregory's best friend
  • Viscount William Stone, a neighbour
  • Miss Eliza Marple, the vicar's daughter
  • Eustace Nightingale, Gregory's tutor
  • Abigail Peace, Grace's companion
  • Lady Grace Tinnington, the Peeverly sibling's Aunt
  • Baron John Wellington, an old friend of the family


Costume

Victorian outfits, varying from extremely wealthy to scraping by depending upon the character. Some suggestions will be sent out with the Character Sheets, but it is largely up to the player.


Contact

Zara: ysemayrede@gmail.com

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BACKGROUND

1854. England. A scientific craze has been sweeping the nation. Everyone who is anyone is playing with the new machines that are being developed and following discoveries as they are being made. Newspapers have been full of reports of reanimation attempts, explosions and poisonings. Experiments made by small societies have made them huge amounts of cash and some that have gone catastrophically wrong.

In Little Dipping, Warwickshire a small society of oddballs, eccentrics and bored nobility are just one of these groups, more enthusiastic than most perhaps but not as long established. This Thursday will be their first meeting. They have got hold of an electricity machine, several strange plants, a large amount of spirits and...something else. This Thursday the experiments begin...