Lettice And Lovage
Peter Shaffer

The story is about Lettice Douffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry and an enthusiast of history and the theatre.

She is a tour guide at Fustian House (one of the least interesting of Britain's stately homes).
Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and her lecture gains theatricality and romance as it strays from the facts.

Lotte Schoen, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is not impressed or entertained by these history lessons.
She fires Lettice, but gradually becomes fascinated by her unusual past, her romantic world view and her refusal to accept the mediocre.
The two women forge an alliance to awaken their fellow citizens to the dreariness of modern life

Good Companions

April- 22-23-24

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