Promotional postcard for The Monk and the Woman by Frederick Melville. First produced at the Lyceum Theatre, 28th February 1912. ?The Greatest Play Since ?The Sign of the Cross?. Artist: E. P. Kinsella. Touring to West Ham Palace, 28th October 1912. This Melville melodrama is set in the 16th century. A coup de theatre was achieved when soldiers, disguised as monks, suddenly unfrock and point their weapons at the villains.