What Can I do With My Heart?

Award-winning actress Susan Hegarty travels the personal journey of a noted artist whose paths of romantic and spiritual passion collided in the early Twentieth Century. The play is based on the diary of Juliet Thompson, a painter best known for her portraits of the rich and influential in New York and Washington, including President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, and Ethel Barrymore.
Thompson is transformed by a 1909 meeting with ‘Abdu’l-Baha, a Persian spiritual teacher and leader of the Baha’i Faith. She finds her new life in conflict with the man she loves, the controversial, celebrated, charismatic New York activist preacher, Percy Stickney Grant. The one woman play follows Thompson from Washington D.C., to Paris, Palestine, Switzerland and New York, where ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Grant met in 1912.