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Shoe shop to stage

When the would-be actress in Natalia Kostrzewa’s one-woman play, More Light Please, runs away from Warsaw to Dublin, she ends up working in a shoe shop after the father she’s chasing fails to meet her at the airport.

In real life, Kostrzewa too worked in a shoe shop while attempting to become an actress. For both character and author, the travails were often soul-destroying.