British Broadcasting Corporation Home. Adapted by acclaimed playwright and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon , and directed by award-winning Marc Munden The Devil's Whore, The Mark Of Cain , this intimate psychological thriller lifts the lid on the darker side of Victorian London revealing a world seething with vitality, sexuality, ambition and emotion.
David Thompson , producer for Origin Pictures, says: "Origin Pictures is thrilled to be bringing to screen this extraordinary, sexually-charged story which will certainly shake up the audience's perceptions of conventional period drama.
I'm delighted we've assembled such a striking cast and such a bold and imaginative director. Highly sought after and sexually adept, Sugar finds her only comfort in the secret novel she is writing in which a murderous prostitute takes revenge on her clients. Agnes regularly endures visits from the invasive physician Doctor Curlew Richard E Grant , leaving her unable to perform her wifely duties.
William ensconces Sugar as his mistress and she soon grows accustomed to her new life. Yet, unbeknownst to William, Sugar begins to hatch a plan which sets a series of events in motion that will change their lives for ever.
This riveting account of life in the world of Victorian prostitution is packed with detail and texture. An intelligent tale of love, lust, desire and revenge, it reveals the true sexual politics of Victorian life โ in a way never seen before on screen.
