Synopsis
The Road Hill House Murder
$14.99
Published by New Theatre Publications
8 Male 4 Female
It is 1860 at Hill House in the village of Road, Wiltshire, and the body of a
four-year-old boy is found pushed down an outside privy
He has been stabbed, and his throat cut
But how did the assailant manage to enter a locked house to abduct him, and why?
No-one seems to have a motive, but many have something to hide
Based on true events that caused the scandal of the age, this play reveals the infidelities, jealousies and ruthlessness that existed within the secretive middle class society of Victorian England