Dinosaur Pieces

Two One Act Plays linked by common themes. Carriages & Correspondents – London 1856, the dawn of the fourth estate The Reverent William Buckland, Discoverer of Megalosaurus, A Zoophage, The Dean of Westminster and the first professor of Geology at Oxford University lays on his deathbed in a private asylum. A journalist resorts to unconventional methods to try and secure a scandalous deathbed confession. The Dinosaur Jacket – A story of rivalry narrated by two of palaeontology’s most infamous figures, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh. In the present day, Lost in the middle of Oxfordshire a group of amateur Palaeontologists discover a remarkable paleontological find and a wife unearths a secret about her husband that will lead to something else being buried.