Mask of Thespis
by
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About the Book
A New York production of Hamlet runs into more than its share of problems–from the producer to the understudies. A puzzling death during rehearsals is compounded by additional deaths throwing the troupe into suspicion and fear. Everyone has their own theory but the truth is not revealed until someone is in jeopardy and a member of the cast unravels the mystery. But will it be in time?
About the Author
Norma Davison spent a number of years in community theatre, children’s theatre, Off-Broadway, Off-off Broadway and minor roles in television. Her New York City debut was with the New York Shakespeare Festival as ‘Portia’ in Julius Caesar. She counts as a special experience when she performed the lead in an English translation of a Sanskrit play, The Vision of Vassavatta, at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC and then New York City. She has also worked in national touring companies: National Repertory Theatre working in two classics with Eva LeGallienne and Margaret Webster and her last performance was taking over the role of ‘Regina’ for Margaret Leighton in Mike Nichols' production of The Little Foxes.
Then she went into the business world working up to the mid-management level where she found there was more acting in the boardrooms than ‘on the boards.’
Ace Books published Norma’s first book Rievaulx Abbey. Poetry, short stories and food articles were published by small presses and had a staged reading of her play, Quite Contrary at the Bristol Riverside Theatre.
Traveling extensively in Europe a number of times, she refers to London as her favorite city. Also, a trip to Tahiti and New Zealand is one of her cherished experiences.
She has a hobby of water coloring, using photographs of her travels as her subjects.
Norma has resided in Bucks County, Pennsylvania for the last fifteen years with her very vain crescent ring-necked dove, Heshe.
Mask of Thespis is her second mystery.