The Taxidermist’s Daughter

WRITTEN BY Kate Mosse

9 April 2025 - 12 April 2025 (INCLUDING A SATURDAY MATINEE)

Directed by Yvette Owen

From her own international best-selling Gothic novel. Kate Mosse has adapted the thrilling Gothic story of violence, retribution and justice.  

1912. In an isolated house on the Sussex salt marshes, Connie Gifford lives with her father. Robbed of her childhood memories by a mysterious accident, she is haunted by fitful glimpses of her past – whilst her father has become a broken man, taking refuge in the bottle, since the closure of his once-legendary Museum of Avian Taxidermy.

A strange woman has been seen in the graveyard – and a few miles away, two patients have, inexplicably, disappeared from the local asylum. As a major storm hits the coastline, old wounds are about to be opened as one woman, intent on revenge, attempts to liberate another from the horrifying crimes of the past.

Yvette is usually the June director in the Harlequin Season, bringing multi-award nominated and winning productions to our stage which includes, The Crucible, The Ferryman and The Welkin.

 

The roles we are looking to cast with ages:

  • Connie Gifford 18 - 25 Cassie Pine 18 - 25

  • Dr Woolston 40 - 70

  • Clerk 40 - 60 (female or male)

  • Charles Crowther 40 - 70

  • Harry Woolston 20 - 30

  • Sergeant Pennicott 50 - 60

  • Gregory Joseph 40 - 60

  • Gerald White 40 - 70

  • Jennie Christie 50 - 60

  • Davey Reedman 18 - 25

  • Crawley Gifford 50 - 60

  • Mary Christie 15 -25

  • Frederick Brook 50 - 70

  • Levi Nutbeam 50 - 70