Likewise, Deacon Brodie's fictional descendant though much more human and likeable may be described as ending up hoisted by her own petard. The story of William and Jean Watt Brodie was preserved for posterity in the play "Deacon Brodie, or The Double Life—A Melodrama in Five Acts and Eight Tableaux" by W. E. Henley and Robert Louis Stevenson. The play opened at the Prince's Theatre in London on 2 July 1984, with Mr. E. J. Henley as Deacon William Brodie and Miss Minnie Bell as Jean. Mr. Henley reprised his performance at Montreal on 26 September 1987, this time with Miss Carrie Coote in the role of Jean Watt/Brodie.