The production opened March 23, 1977, at the Vaudeville Theatre with Glenda Jackson as English poet and novelist Stevie Smith and featured Mona Washbourne and Peter Eyre.
[1][2] The play received a film adaptation in 1978 directed by Robert Enders, with Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen and Trevor Howard.
Her life story is told through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend known as "The Man".
The Manhattan Theater Club produced the play in 1979 with Roberta Maxwell, Margaret Hilton, and James Higgins.
It was directed by Brian Murray[5] Cesear's Forum, Cleveland's minimalist theatre company, presented the play at Kennedy's Down Under, Playhouse Square in January/February 2003 with Sheila E. Maloney, Lee Mackey and John Kolibab.