19:00, Tue 3rd – Sat 7th December 2024 at Corpus Playroom
Michaelmas Week 8
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r*pe and/or sexual assault; abuse (physical, mental, verbal, sexual); death and/or dying; mental illness
Fresh from its run at the Camden Fringe, The Chaplain tells of a prison chaplain in 1850s Victorian England, tasked with cleansing the souls of those sentenced to death or transportation for the most heinous crimes.
In a dirty prison cell, the Chaplain meets three convicts. Throughout, he is also plagued by the voice of a mysterious woman who lurks in the cell's shadows, and the Chaplain is certain he has met her somewhere before. As the musical unfolds and the Chaplain's mental state deteriorates, it becomes clear that he too has sins he must confess.