“There aren’t any stories, there are only court records — that’s literally where the voices of those women are,” says the playwright, whose 2011 drama Jumpy, starring Tamsin Greig, transferred to London’s West End and whose recent My Brilliant Friend (adapting Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels) played at the National Theatre. Conditions were dire,...

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