Early Morning
Early Morning Author: Edward Bond
First Performance: 1968, London
Published: 1968
Genre: Drama in 21 scenes
Setting: Windsor Castle and Great Park, Slough, Beachy Head, and heaven, mid-19th c.
Cast: 12m, 3f, extras
Disraeli and Prince Albert are plotting a military coup against Queen Victoria. George, the Prince of Wales, who is the Siamese twin of Arthur, is to marry Florence Nightingale. Len is tried by Victoria for eating a man who pushed in a cinema queue. Victoria rapes Florence. In the bungled coup, Victoria poisons and strangles Albert, and George gets shot. A lynch mob, led by Gladstone, prepare to hang Len for letting Victoria escape. Victoria and her sons are lined up before a firing squad, but are let go when Gladstone drops dead. George shoots himself dead. As the civil war continues, Albert carries...
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