Vigil: The Great Fire, Act 5

Act Five of Five: In which the full might of the Great Fire, the Searing Tongue, the Smothering Haze, is unleashed on Sherrydown.

Coming next on 6 June – Burning questions (Vigil Backstage)

PROGRAMME NOTES
This production contains violence (including gun violence), possession, and death by fire.

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DRAMATIS PERSONAE AND OTHER DEFINITIONS
PERSEPHONE ‘PERCY’ BYRON: A Victorian monster hunter and half-sister of Ada Lovelace. Percy tried to time travel from 1852 to 1666 to stop the summoning of an apocalyptic demon, but something went wrong, and she landed in present-day Sherrydown instead.

MICK MASON: Sherrydown’s favourite builder and bricklayer. His life has been getting weirder since he dug too deep and hit a leyline.

BRIER: A mischievous shapeshifting púca, the fae guardian of Sherrydown’s Rosebrier Forest.

ED KINCAID: a once promising, now disgraced MI5 agent assigned to investigate the more … esoteric threats reported to the national security hotline.

DEPARTMENT OF OMISSIONS (DO, DoOm): The UK government department tasked with preventing harm to citizens from supernatural phenomena. Severely defunded under Tory austerity policies and currently prioritising major urban population centres.

SHERRYDOWN, BRACKSHIRE: A historic English market town. One of the first towns to lose its DoOm office.

OMISSION EFFECT: The rejection of certain beings and phenomena by long-term memory. Can be suppressed by concentration, mnemonic techniques, hypnosis, trauma, or the light of the full moon.

CREDITS
COMPERE: Matt Boothman

STARRING:
- Ellie Pitkin as Percy Byron, the Exile
- Dave as Mick, the Mundane
- Strat as Brier, the Monstrous
- Chris MacLennan as Kincaid, the Professional

ROLEPLAYING GAME SYSTEM: Monster of the Week, designed by Michael Sands
MUSIC BY: Alexander Pankhurst
SOUND DESIGN BY: Matt Boothman
EDITED AND PRODUCED BY: Matt Boothman

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