Mary & Myra by Catherine Filloux

"Mary and Myra needs no special treatment to be a major theater piece. The writing is so exact that it is hard to imagine actors failing when reading the script. The success is in a tight script with every line on target."

"Mary and Myra takes the audience hostage -- a kind of seance, a spellbinding recreation of lives that come toward us like torches lighting the future."

"...playwright Catherine Filloux hangs plenty of flesh on the thin bones of the public record. To her credit, she renders Mary Todd a creature of contradiction, at once petulant and impossible, demanding and clear-eyed, unable to contain the sharp tongue that so offends her thin-skinned eldest child. Myra Bradwell is equally complex."

"Another American icon, Mary Todd Lincoln, is brought to roaring life in Miss Filloux's Mary and Myra. A talky, well-made play about one woman damned by her reputation who is saved by a woman who was damned into obscurity."