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CHARACTERS IN EACH SCENE
CHARACTERS IN EACH SCENE
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The set and furniture can be simple or complex, depending on the budget. Scenes such as the park, base camp, offices and hospital corridors could be played with little or no scenery, for example on an apron stage. Key furniture includes wooden benches, stools and trestle tables. Ingenious and professional designers could choose to integrate several scenes into one composite set.
To maintain pace, the set should enable scene transitions to be quickly dissolved and created, rather than longer set changes during blackouts.
ACT ONE
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A STREET MARKET IN 1851. Market day
THE PARK. Later that same day
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A ROOM IN THE OLD PREMISES OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE CARE OF
SICK GENTLEWOMEN IN DISTRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES. Four months later
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ACT TWO
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FLORENCE'S OFFICE AT THE NEW INSTITUTE. March 1854
A FIELD HOSPITAL AT THE CRIMEAN WAR
A STREET. March 1854
THE DINING ROOM OF SYDNEY HERBERT'S LONDON HOUSE . October 1854
AT TILBURY DOCKS
A BASE CAMP IN THE CRIMEA. Start of winter 1854
A CORRIDOR IN THE BARRACK HOSPITAL
THE BARRACK HOSPITAL KITCHEN. Later
A CORRIDOR IN THE BARRACK HOSPITAL. Later
THE NURSES' QUARTERS. Leading to the harbour
A CORRIDOR IN THE BARRACK HOSPITAL. The following day
THE NURSES' QUARTERS. Later that evening
A HOSPITAL WARD. Later
THE OFFICE OF DOCTOR SMITH. Some months later
A HOSPITAL WARD. Short while later
A CORRIDOR IN THE BARRACK HOSPITAL. Several weeks later
MR SABIN'S HOUSE. Short while later
A STREET MARKET IN 1856. July 1856
A ROOM IN THE NEW PREMISES OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE CARE OF
SICK GENTLEWOMEN IN DISTRESSED CIRCUMSTANCES. Four months later