I got my contract to write Season of The Witch: The Book of Goth just as the first Covid lockdown began in March 2020.
I first became aware of the playwright Teresa Deevy, the Irish author of the Jermyn Street's imminent A Wife to James Whelan, while leafing through a production history of the Abbey Theatre through 1951 and finding her name six times between 1930 and 1936. She was among a handful of women writers who had multiple plays produced at Ireland's National Theatre.
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