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- Genre: Comedy, Drama
- Breakdown: 1M+1W, 2W
- Publisher: Link
Synopsis
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she’s telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose. With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.
Character Breakdown
SALLY POPPY- 21 or thereabouts
ELIZABETH LUKE- 35, give or take
JUDITH BREWER- older
CHARLOTTE CARY- older
KITTY GIVENS- young, Scottish
HELEN LUDLOW- middle-aged
SARAH HOLLIS- middle-aged
EMMA JENKINS- middle-aged
ANN LAVENDER- young
MARY MIDDLETON- young, pregnant
HANNAH RUSTED- young
SARAH SMITH- older
PEG CARTER- young, pregnant
MR. COOMBES- the bailiff
FREDERICK POPPY- the husband
MR. WILLIS- the doctor
KATY LUKE- the midwife's daughter
ALICE WAX- the victim (child)
LADY WAX- the mother