Drama on 3 - The Hybernaculum

By Yolanda Pupo-Thompson. A play depicting a summer's day at The Wakes, the house of 18th-century amateur naturalist the Rev Gilbert White, when White, awaiting the final proofs of his book, is tormented by a form of tinnitus which he calls 'obsessive ruminations'. He is also distraught at the disappearance of his pet tortoise Timothy and, during the course of the search for his old friend, he is forced to emerge from his secluded hybernaculum and confront the fact that his days as a naturalist and active clergyman are nearly at an end. Rev Gilbert White ..... John Bett Molly White ..... Madeleine Worrall John Mulso ..... Simon Scott Dr Chandler/Thomas Hoare ..... Crawford Logan Hecky Chapone ..... Hilary Neville Tom White ..... William Neville-Towle Bee Boy ..... Carlos Williams Music by Joe Acheson Directed by Matt Thompson.