ASIN: B01H3YJ93O
Publisher: Lyvit Publishing
Pages: 101
A theatre script about epidemics, vaccination and the harsh reality of the industrial revolution.In 1865 the bubonic plague has returned to London two hundred years after it last left. Frank Brock, a local coal merchant, has been employed to collect the dead on his coal trolley while the devastation of the disease tears families apart. The industrial revolution is at its peak so the factories continue to produce despite the high death toll and Frank's son, Fred, has begun a relationship with one of the factory workers, Victoria, who is in a prime position to see the deaths of children in such factories due to their appalling working conditions. Across town a young man is experimenting with a seemingly insane idea; he is giving rats inoculations of various combinations to find a cure for the plague. During his experiments he comes across a formula that he believes to be successful but ...
