"Christine De Pizan was a rare figure, exerting a powerful influence over the France of her day, which was the most important nation in Europe.  She left us with a variety of texts, and Ms. Savoy has selected some of the most personal and poignant among them to form a character from this magisterial woman. In choosing to bring Christine to life with her own letters as a script, Savoy eschews the peril of many historical dramas--the overweening desire to insert the historian into an image of the past. Instead, Savoy devotes her considerable talents to an enactment that obeys the strictest rules, of accent, period costume as well as basis text. Savoy's voice speaks Christine's words. As such we do not see a dream or a fantasy of a medieval woman, but something quite thrillingly close to the medieval woman herself, in her grandeur, practicality and wisdom. Savoy leaves us with the fascinating task of connecting that life with our own time, and I for one felt compelled to do so. The moments of reflection, as for example when Ms. Savoy bewails the horrors inflicted by the English at Agincourt, and her celebration of Christine's contemporary Joan of Arc, feel tantalizingly close to the goal any historical drama should seek: to bring the past to life. In the hands of an actor as powerful, centered and riveting as Ms. Savoy, one has little hesitation believing that the court of France would listen closely to her story and her ideas. I did."