SYNOPSIS: London, 1879. The prestigious Explorers Club is in crisis: their acting president wants to admit a woman and their bartender is terrible. True, this female candidate is brilliant, beautiful, and has discovered a legendary lost city, but the decision to let in a woman could shake the very foundation of the British Empire, and how do you make such a decision without a decent drink?

Grab your safety goggles for some very mad science involving deadly cobras, carnivorous plants, irate Irishmen, and gravity-defying libations.

All Roles, all ethnicities:

LUCIUS FRETWAY – Male, 20ish to 50ish, a botanist and a man of science.

PHYLLIDA SPOTTE-HUME – Female, 20ish to 45ish, an anthropologist.

HARRY PERCY – Male, 20ish to 50ish; an intrepid explorer.

LUIGI – Male, any age, a NaKong tribesman. (Actor playing this role must be comfortable with improv, movement, and physical humor. LUIGI speaks his own language…literally.)

PROFESSOR COPE -Male, any age; an herpetologist.

PROFESSOR SLOAN – Male, any age; an archeo-theologist.

PROFESSOR WALLING -Male, any age; a zoologist.

SIR BERNARD HUMPHRIES – Male, 40 or older; private secretary to Queen Victoria.

BEEBE -Male, any age; an explorer. (This actor also plays the Irish Assassin.)

COUNTESS GLAMORGAN – A countess and twin sister to PHYLLIDA. (played by the same actress.)