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Kate Webster was put to death in 1879 for the bestial act of butchering Mrs Martha Thomas and tossing her remains in the Thames. At her trial, Kate used all her wiles to evade the gallows by implicating innocent men as well as feigning pregnancy. But who was this Victorian woman? What drove her to commit such a heinous crime? The play presents a psychological study of this Irish woman with a dark past. This is the second play from the pen of Alan Kilpatrick, our first being "Shade", the story of Burke and Hare, the most notorious killers in Scotland's history.