It's 1828 in Edinburgh and medical advances are running as fast as the number of cadavers are low. Spurred by their stack of debts and with a penchant for enterprise, William Burke Hayden Wood and William Hare Alex Parry decide to take advantage of the influenza outbreak to supply surgeons with mostly fresh bodies with the help of Mrs Hare Katy Daghorn and other incidental unfortunates.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:44AM on December 1, 2018