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Me and Freddy (aka Alfred) Cook - the very first presentation after my residency. I've just finished the summer presentations of my...

I've been so focused on the Major Dramatic Question (MDQ) of the play I'm writing at La Napoule - WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO? -that I've...

I find museums incredibly inspiring 98% of the time. The other 2% of the time, the experience sucks. I get furious or depressed or both....

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” So wrote historian Lauren Thatcher Ulrich. On the other hand, badly-behaved women don’t always...

When I started writing about Marie-Thérèse, the daughter of Queen Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI of France, I discovered many unexpected...

(The roar of Niagara Falls. Lights up on Annie. She clasps an invisible heart-shaped silk pillow, addresses a crowd.) ANNIE Ladies and...

For years, I've been wanting to do site-specific theatre. Mostly, in really fabulous historic sites. And now it's going to happen - in...

Marie-Thérèse (above) was the daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. And the only member of the immediate...

March 8. Catherine the Great, empress of Russia from 1762-1796, was in the headlines yesterday. News reports said she founded Odessa –...

March 3. History loves black and white, especially where women are concerned. Madonna or whore. BFF's or arch-enemies. But we all know...