Authorised Kate Bane

A painfully comic excavation of a familyhistory that asks if there is an authorised version of the past - or justthe one we can live with. Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winterweekend to introduce her new boyfriend. As the snow falls, Kate findsherself searching with increasing desperation for the truth about her family's past. Are her memories fact, or are they continually shifting acts of imagination? Unable topin down the truth, can she write a version of the family mythology that will ensure her own happiness? Ella Hickson's play The Authorised Kate Bane first performed at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, in October 2012 in a production by Grid Iron Theatre Company. It then transferred to the Tron Theatre, Glasgow.