This extraordinary play won first prize at the Edinburgh Festival and the Theatre Festival in Sydney, as well as the VITA Award in South Africa as best play. The play begins just after the death of Gertrude Stein. Her ghos returns to Alice B Tokals and the genesis and develop,ent of their relationshipo is deeply portrayed. Mr Wells has truly captured the feeling of art, literature, and music of Paris of those years when Pablo and Ernst and Henri and all of Gertrude's friends spent their free time in the great writer's salon. This play is a director's dream. it fits back and forth in time as the actors portray not only Gertrude an Alice, but a host of famous people who were part of their lives.

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