Two women stand facing each other, each touching the other's hand. There is a wall of books behind them. The woman on the left is in contemporary clothes holding a large leather book, the woman on the right is dressed as a nun.

Jessica Dickey’s world premiere at Remy Bumppo (directed by Marti Lyons) has some echoes of Doug Wright’s I Am My Own Wife: the playwright appears as a character, researching the life of a historical figure as a way to come to grips with her own personal narrative. But unlike the ethically complicated (but still remarkable) […]

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