NURSE HERNIANE

You've been invited to play the role of NURSE HERNIANE in A Very Shakespearean Murder. What scream through yonder window breaks? Queen Derivative the Second is having a right royal ado, but before the guests can forketh down the first oxen, the Queen’s jester Yorick is found dead-ed! Join us to find out who-duneth-it!

Your costume suggestion

You do not have the time nor the money for fancy clothes though you are always neatly presented. Your long-sleeved dress is dark and plain, and covered with a long white apron. Your hair is tied up in a knot and you carry a ladle.

About you...

BIO
You are a nursemaid to a spoilt teenage brat called Juliet who does nothing but swoon over Romeo and order you around. You always dreamed of so much more - a rich husband, a big house, a garden full of flowers - yet here you are growing old and creaky while you work with nothing to look forward to but nursing Juliet’s inevitable love child, and a low Elizabethan life expectancy.

INTRODUCE YOURSELF AT THE START OF THE GAME BY READING THIS
Fie, I will introduce myself to you in a while but first let me catch my breath. I am weary from running errands for Juliet, that idle girl. Can she not see I am old? My bones doth ache just at the sight of her! But I am sworn to the Catapults to look after her as they have washed their hands of her. Now I have my breath I will tell you my name. I am Nurse Herniane. There, now let me rest. Alas, poor Yorick, I knew he was unwell…