Synopsis
Gilbert is Dead
$15.99 Published by Methuen
Gilbert is Dead is a Victorian scientific mystery play - a clever, funny and moving portrait of grief, faith and science
The plot follows Lucius Trickett, London's most celebrated taxidermist, who finds himself in cahoots with Queen Victoria and our hero Gilbert Shirley, to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution with a stuffed specimen of the mysterious ghost loris
But what happens when the missing link goes missing ...