A Single Woman (play) A Single Woman (play) A Single Woman is a play based on the life of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in the United States Congress. First drafted as a one-woman show by Nevada Shakespeare Company founding Artistic Director, Jeanmarie Simpson, it developed into a "duet performance work" by the time it premiered at the Oats Park Art Center in Fallon, Nevada on February 7, 2004. The play subsequently toured internationally with hundreds of grassroots performances before running at The Culture Project Off-Broadway in the summer of 2005. The play closed at the Invisible Theatre in Tucson, Arizona on November 5,
Single & Single a shrewd businessman, then realized he was involved in black market dealings during World War II. At first Le Carré was simultaneously disgusted and fascinated by his father's criminal side, until he realized that his father was not a "mastermind," but instead a rather pathetic con man. Likewise, Oliver grows up eager to learn the "secret" of his father's success and geniality, but by the end of the novel realizes that his father has no "secret" at all. The Globe and Mail calls "Single and Single" one of le Carré's 'more underrated novels', and praises his depiction of 'the collapse