Constance Drinkwater and the final days of Somerset is a 2006 Australian play by Stephen Carleton.
It is set in the town of Somerset.
The play won the 2004 Patrick White Playwrights Award.
[1] "It is 1899 and only the resolve of Lady Constance Drinkwater has kept the Far North Queensland settlement of Somerset from crumbling.
Beset by storms, ill-luck and a mysterious disease that has killed all but two of Constance’s children, it is the arrival of strangers – anthropologist Professor Cornelius Crabbe and his companion, Mr Hop Lee – that sets in motion the final catastrophic days of Somerset.