Overview

It is 1917. World War I has taken its toll on "gay Paree". Everyone is struggling, not least the notorious exotic dancer, Mata Hari. Arrested for passing information to the Germans, Mata Hari is interrogated by two Frenchmen who are convinced that everything she says and does is a lethal fiction For years Mata Hari has been seen as a femme fatale and a dangerous spy. But the 'truth' behind this remarkable woman is a good deal more complex, with many having their own motives for their version of her story. Why is everything about her not quite what it seems? And what really lies beneath her many masks? The True Life Fiction of Mata Hari is the first of Diane Samuels' plays to reach the London stage since the continuing success of Kindertransport, her play about the 10,000 Jewish children permanently evacuated from Nazi Germany.