'Wallace's Women' - receives new virtual production in the US! Chestnut Productions at Ohio State University are presenting Wallace's Women from 3rd to 18th January 2007. click to enlarge above pictures http://www.osu.edu/ http://www.cityofcolumbus.org/

Wallace's Women (with Margaret McSeveny). Margaret McSeveney and I met as members of the now-defunct Traverse Theatre Women Writers' Group and at the Lanark Writers' Circle of which we were both members.

The idea to write a play about the Scottish patriot and fighter for independence, William Wallace, arose in 1997, because it was the 700th anniversary year of Wallace's first exploit - the murder of the English sheriff of Lanark and the latter's revenge killing of Wallace's wife, Marian Bradefute (Broadfoot).

I precipitated our enterprise by writing to the local newspaper, the Lanark Gazette, announcing that a new play by local writers was to be performed as part of the celebrations. This news was duly reported in the newspaper, then I told Margaret McSeveny what I had done. Luckily, our first draft was met with qualified enthusiasm and approval by the very good local amateur dramatic group in Lanark, the Wellgate Players.