The Winter Wife

This stage biography of gifted short-story writer Katherine Mansfield is set in the tuberculosis sanitarium where she went with her devoted companion Ida Baker to regain her health over the winter of 1920-21. The play focuses on the relationship between these two ladies and on this important literary figure's sensibilities as a writer and a woman while revealing harsh truths about her marriage to a writer and critic who treated her with selfish insensitivity.