The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for 22 October 1997 has a review of a play, "A
Private Audience with Queen Victoria" and subtitled,"An American Humorist in
Queen Victoria's Court" by Marjorie Stewart. The free lance who wrote the
review calls it "a small gem of bright talking, smart thinking theater."

Mark Twain and Queen Victoria meet in this historical revisionism. "The play
is framed by an introduction and conclusion that directly involve the 20th
century audience. In between come a complication and resolution that are
satisfyingly precise."

"The complication is based on diversity, exemplified by Victoria's royal
rules and Twain's aim to flout them... For all their differences, these to
have both been touched by the gravity of grief, potentially exposing
fundamental frailities that defy caste or custom."

It is being presented on four Sundays between now and 14 December at
Victoria
Hall, 201 S. Winebiddle Street in Friendship (which I presume is a community
and not an attribute).