On a Friday evening after a long week, we were not looking forward to a play about the London Plague. However, we were pleasantly surprised. This was an engaging and relevant play. The three key roles were all strong. Many “male” roles were played by women, but it didn’t really matter – it worked. Holden Harris played John Graunt, a pioneer statistician and epidemiology, with a halting delivery. It seemed odd, but he was an odd character, so that too worked.
When the doctors tended patients, they wore these strange masks with long “beaks”. These were in fact authentic, as I had visited the London Museum not too long ago where they had these in the London Plague exhibits. Very scary masks!