- London. 1906. A scandal. A pandemic. Four women. One missing. A baby. A pile of numbers. A disturbing new technology. And play that is being presented across town that seems to be the real story. "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" meets "Mrs. Warren's Profession." Honoria Fawcett is a small business owner who is attempting to earn her living in turn-of-the-century London. She does this with women who have been cast out of polite society. A teenager of mixed parentage form Jamaica. A French housekeeper who is not interested men. The wealthy daughter of a woman of ill-repute. Unlike what might be expected, she running a business of numbers, a computing shop that takes digits in one form and turns them into another. The job is hard. She must promote her office. Struggle to find new jobs. Bargain with potential bosses. Nudge aside the competition. Meet the challenge of new technologies. In this work, one of her employees, Vivian Warren, always seems to be absent. She is actually appearing in a different play - one in which she is the lead character - that is currently having its premier. She drops a texts to Honoria (they called them "telegrams" then) to let her feelings be known. In her world, Vivian Warren is being pursued by the news that her fortune came from a chain of brothers in Europe. In this play, Honoria is trying to outrun the London Necropolis Express, the train that takes the victims of the impoverished victims of the pandemic to distant cemeteries.—David Grier
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