Tom Stoppard did it to Hamlet so we decided to do it for  George Bernard Shaw’s play, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession.”  Everyone knows the profession that Mrs. Warren followed.  No one remembers what her daughter, Vivian, did.  (Just as no one remembers what Rosencranz and Guildenstern did when they visited Elsinor, beyond being school chums of the Danish Prince.  

Vivian Warren was a mathematician.  Unlike her male peers at Cambridge, she could not expect much of a career in field beyond doing statistical tabulation for banks and insurance companies.  It was blue collar work.  Repetitious and exacting, but it gave women a modicum of control over their own lives.  Perhaps a very little modicum, surrounded as it was by domestic concerns, care for children, the eternal need to hustle for business and competition from a new technology that promised to do calculation automatically.  

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Produced, Written and Directed by David Alan Grier