Fore, by

Charles Dana Gibson

Self-Made Girls

a multi-media staged performance

written and performed by Annie Reilly

150 years ago, a generation of young women sallied forth from the shores of the good ol' US of A and conquered Europe with their wit, charm and heaving purses of money!  Welcomed by an impoverished, bemused and frankly eccentric aristocracy, they became known as The Dollar Princesses and immortalized in the novels Pandora by Henry James, and The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton.

Jenny Jerome married Randolph Churchill in 1874, Nancy Astor became the first woman elected to parliament in 1919, and in 2008 Annie Reilly, from Pennsylvania, was the first person to be awarded an MA at the Guildford School of Acting.

With 'wit and charm' (minus the bags of money), Annie Reilly tells the story of the DPs along side her own modern tale of a 'self-made girl' from the States looking to fulfill (or is it 'fulfil'?) her Anglophile dreams.