Finding Hester Quotes

“Ewen Montagu is played by a woman because if he were played by a man, he would be so incredibly insufferable that the entire show would fall apart. His over-confident bravado in the hands of the women who have played him thus far instead comes across as charming, and a send-up of an entitled, public school alumni brand of patriarchy, rather than support of it.”
― Erin Edwards, Finding Hester: The Incredible Story Of The Hidden Woman Whose Love Letters Changed World War II In Operation Mincemeat

“It is a musical people can't help but talk about, both because it is good and because it is absolutely mad. Operation Mincemeat itself is a caper that doesn't quite seem real, and its retelling as a musical only heightens the baffling nature of the story.”
― Erin Edwards, Finding Hester: The Incredible Story Of The Hidden Woman Whose Love Letters Changed World War II In Operation Mincemeat