Teaching oneself (and others) to dance, or Waltz with Me (Diane Samuels [2023])

British playwright Diane Samuels is the author of several celebrated plays, among which Kindertransport (published in 1993 at Nick Hern Books), about a woman strikingly coming to terms with her past as a Kindertransport child having fled Nazi Germany. Her new play, Waltz with Me, was published in 2023 at Renard Press. It delves into the issues of education, womanhood, marriage and motherhood through the character of Maggie Byrne, a music teacher who visits her old convent school where she wa...