| Constance Drinkwater and the final days of Somerset | |
| Setting: | Somerset, Queensland, 1899 |
| Premiere: | 10 July 2006 |
| Place: | Bille Brown Studio |
| Genre: | Queensland gothic |
Constance Drinkwater and the final days of Somerset is a 2006 Australian play by Stephen Carleton. It is set in the town of Somerset.
The play won the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights Award.[1]
"It is 1899 and only the resolve of Lady Constance Drinkwater has kept the Far North Queensland settlement of Somerset from crumbling. Beset by storms, ill-luck and a mysterious disease that has killed all but two of Constance’s children, it is the arrival of strangers – anthropologist Professor Cornelius Crabbe and his companion, Mr Hop Lee – that sets in motion the final catastrophic days of Somerset."[2]