Synopsis

English descendant full cousins Ashley and Evangeline Oliver marry on 23rd February 1904 at the Parish Church of Kilfinane, two months pregnant with Ashley’s baby, Richard Jnr. As the winds of trouble stirs, Britain plans to grant Home Rule to Ireland. In the County of Limerick, is a small town named Kilfinane where the Oliver family Mill provides employment and an economical stronghold with its flax, carding and timber and two corn mills.

Ashley, son of William Silver Oliver, Medical Doctor-Surgeon - Irish Fusiliers and Evangeline, daughter of Richard Oliver Snr, the Miller, both live in the Mill complex in their home. With Richard Oliver Snr very unwell and no heir groomed to take over the reigns of the family Mill, the Mill’s existence appears bleak.

In 1914 Britain calls to arms to go to war, taking many of Ireland’s men with her, including Ashley Oliver. Evangeline and her mother, Alice begrudgingly bury their differences to keep the Mill afloat until Ashley returns home from the fighting overseas. Before Ashley can return home from war, Evangeline’s father Richard Snr passes away.

Evangeline tells the story of a woman’s torment and terrible injustices as her family empire dissolves, her husband fights in a war she doesn’t understand in an overseas country, whilst her own country wages its own internal fight for freedom. Evangeline Oliver is a woman with a passion for playing the piano, drums, and clarinet, whose daily disruption is her pet dogs and the occasional visitor for tea. This is a woman from a privileged upbringing with servants, land, and never knowing what it is like to go hungry. Her constant distraction is family friend Percy French; an English entertainer, painter and balladeer whilst her husband is away fighting and Richard Jnr in boarding school, ...more

Period
This script covers 1904 to 1924 England, with period values, accents and personalities.