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


Clews Clues Act III - It's Called a PLAY!
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...


SUCKS-ess (or cheaper than therapy)
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....


Forgotten Women of France - Béatrice Ephrussi de Rothschild
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” So wrote historian Lauren Thatcher Ulrich. On the other hand, badly-behaved women don’t always...


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


Woman #1 Annie Edson Taylor (I Float)
(The roar of Niagara Falls. Lights up on Annie. She clasps an invisible heart-shaped silk pillow, addresses a crowd.) ANNIE Ladies and...


Welcome to the Chapelle Expiatoire!
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...


Surprise! (Forgotten Women of France)(Plus a Few Men)
Marie-Thérèse (above) was the daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. And the only member of the immediate...


Women's History Month, 2022 - Catherine the Great
March 8. Catherine the Great, empress of Russia from 1762-1796, was in the headlines yesterday. News reports said she founded Odessa –...


Women's History Month March 2022 - Diane and Catherine
March 3. History loves black and white, especially where women are concerned. Madonna or whore. BFF's or arch-enemies. But we all know...
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