The Countess

In 1853 the celebrated art critic John Ruskin, his wife Effie, and the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais depart in high spirits for the Scottish Highlands. When they return four months later, London is already beginning to whisper of the woman one man calls mad, and the other… The Countess. Gregory Murphy’s play is based on one of the most notorious scandals of the Victorian age.