Barnaby Brown
Nancy Rose Clarke
Casper Webb
Elise Verney
Ellen Lawford
Antonia Windsor
and Steven Berkoff
1962. A lonely house in the English countryside. Rose, 16, plays a two-player board game alone. Each time she rolls the dice, we are pulled further into her murky, fragmented world. With a mother who cannot understand her, Rose's only solace is found in glimmering moments spent with her sister, playing games and telling secrets at the bottom of the garden. But as Rose struggles to piece together her fractured memory, the threat of intervention by the family doctor looms over the household.
Based on a true story, BAD SEED is an unsettling, visceral exploration of mental illness in the 20th century, offering a glimpse into an era of systematic abuse and its effect on the lives of real women.