31 Plays in 31 Days, #2 - “Lost Children”

Today’s piece is also from the currently-being-drafted Mrs. Hawking part 7. When we come into Mary and Arthur’s new life in New York in 1890, they’ve got all these new things going on, fun life-expanding things, and Mary in charge of her own superheroing. So here is when she encounters the person that gives her the case she’s working for this episode. We wanted it to feel like a natural extension of the work she did in London, but show a meaningful evolution in Mary’s way of doing things. In this case, we see her willingness to help a man in trouble, while Mrs. Hawking only ever worked for women. It’s also meant to show she’s worked a few cases in America, and feels confident in her abilities to help people, even though it’s just her, with some assistance from Arthur.

Also this means we’re having our first American characters in the shows! Kathleen Duncan from yesterday’s #1 - “Busy Days” is as well. I find that I need to shift the diction in my head when I’m writing the lines for these characters, because I’m so accustomed to imagining them in English accents!

This piece is a little basic, but it’s got good bones.



( Day #2 - Lost Children )