

Dear Diva
Jan Harris
Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York.
This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star, pursued by the government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomized and released as “cured” in 1949.
Saint Frances of Hollywood has taken the biographical details of Frances Farmer’s life and transformed them into a mesmerizing and quintessential classical tragedy.
Cast of 4 women and 4 men.
Saint Frances Of Hollywood is a Canadian play written by Sally Clark and published by Talon Books (1996).
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