Stories about women who fight for the right to express their full humanity are the ones I like to tell. Both the novelist, George Eliot, and her protagonist are dark, disobedient and passionate women struggling to live an imaginative life.

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In our version of this story three different actors play the character of Maggie. Young Maggie is full of hope, the next Maggie struggles to find a way to survive her social reality and the last chooses to become an outcast, the only way to escape the imprisonment of Victorian marriage. Whether they represent different phases of a woman’s life or different aspects of the same woman our three Maggie’s each struggle to live a life of purpose whilst excluded from every opportunity.

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This story’s modernity lies in a woman’s right to fulfill her potential in whatever field she chooses and in the still frustrated attempts of women to expect equity.

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Remarkably their struggle is still that of every woman in our contemporary ‘third world’ and many of those in the ‘first’. Patriarchy is alive and well. Theatrical outrage is an ever timely, ever-valid response.