31 Plays in 31 Days, #24 - "A Few Days' Leave"

Wrote this after struggling figuring out what to write for today. I've been pretty gangbusters with the ideas this month, but for some reason was stuck today.

This piece is from somewhere in the Hawking timeline, though I'm not sure what story it could be part of, if any. It involves Nathaniel's two children, Beatrice and Reggie, who are five and three when the story starts in 1880, but pictured here as adults. This is the first time I've written about them theatrically, but their real first appearance was in my new larp Brockhurst, where Beatrice is a detective and Reginald is a Major in World War I in 1915.

I liked the idea that one of Nathaniel's kids would someday marry one of Mary's kids. The most appealing options are his son Reginald and her daughter Victoria. This scene came out of the fact that there is a slight issue in that Nathaniel's children would have to be at least twelve years older than Mary's due to the timeline, which personally bugs me because I prefer relationships that do not have large age gaps. But in Victorian England that happened all the time, so for the period it's not really weird. Still, I wanted to explore the issue a little, especially given that Reginald's choice of career with the military establishment is at odds with the revolutionary sentiments of Mrs. Hawking's eventual crew.

Of course the best reason to get them together is articulated by Beatrice here in the last line of the scene. ;-)

( Day #24 - "A Few Days' Leave" )