Going to St. Ives

The author of the hilarious Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music also writes brilliant drama. In Lee Blessing’s Going to St. Ives, a British woman (an eminent surgeon) is asked to treat an African woman, the mother of a vicious dictator. Both have secrets that force a clash in political perspectives where these passionate women must negotiate large questions of life and death, motherhood and politics, gender and nationality. Stunning virtuosity by America’s most versatile playwright!