The play jumps in and out of time but I had no trouble following the trail.  Constance and her brother William (Sam Liu) are children from Samuel Saville Kent (Jim Creighton)’s first marriage.  After the death of the first Mrs Kent who had psychiatric issues, Samuel married Mary Pratt (Connie Walker) his children’s nanny.  Mr Kent taunts Constance with implications that she has inherited her mother’s mental instability but is this gaslighting? I think there are 14 babies fathered by Mr Kent, at least half die in infancy. Saville is the first male child of his second marriage.  

There is one set, a Victorian prison with high up barred windows, brick walls and an upper level with an iron balustrade.  By way of introduction, the branches of a family tree spread across the stage introducing all the members of the Kent family.  This is effective, informative and eerie.  Four of the actors will take on multiple roles but there is no confusion as to whom they are playing.  Suspicion falls initially on Miss Gough (Robyn Sinclair) Saville’s nursery maid and although Constance is investigated, there is no proof and she is sent away to France to a school.  She comes back a few years later to live with a High Anglican clergyman in Brighton and from there travels to London to confess to the murder of Saville.