A one woman show devised in response to the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft, late 18th century British thinker, writer, pioneering feminist, radical, and author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The performance combines physical intensity, humour, quirky character work, tragedy, ridiculous petticoats, and a load of sugar cubes, and embodies the lives of multiple women - real, surreal, mythical, historical and imaginary.

The work, co-written with Rosemary Klich and directed by John Britton, draws on real aspects of Mary’s life. We see her suicide attempt at Putney Bridge, her trying to fit in and a continuous failure to do so, sugar cravings, and her being a Grandmother of Frankenstein written by her daughter Mary Shelley. Other women - some iconic, some archetypal or mythological - peak through the multiple veils: Salome, Gandhari, Ishtar, Eve, Frida Kahlo, Mary Magdalene, Ophelia... All in pursuit of the main idea that strong and inspirational women, like Wollstonecraft, are much more complex than we are first led to believe. They often exist in-between the iconic figure and the marginalized loner living on the edge of rationality and society.

Performances: Canterbury Festival at the University of Kent (2016); workshop and performance at the University of Chester (2016); Herstory Festival, London (2016); Drayton Arms Theatre, London (2016).

European Tour: Art Factory, Athens (2017); Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius (2017).