Welcome to my website

My name is Deborah Freeman and I am a playwright. I also write stories and some poetry. I freelance occasionally as a journalist, and run writing groups. I am available as a speaker on a selection of topics.

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Welcome to my website

My name is Deborah Freeman and I am a playwright. I also write stories and some poetry. I freelance occasionally as a journalist, and run writing groups. I am available as a speaker on a selection of topics.

Read full bio

New Plays

My new play is called `Remedies.` It is about – among other things – the `mystery` illness known as M E.

Latest Posts

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Blog – November 14th.

November 14, 2019

It seems to have been a busy few weeks. I have been working on a new story, 6000 words. It took over my life for a week or [...]

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Park Theatre, Fast.

October 27, 2019

Saw the new play Fast, by Kate Barton, because I heard about it on Woman`s Hour, and it sounded fascinating. My sister, visiting, decided not to accompany us [...]

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Creative Writing Group, North Finchley

October 23, 2019

This has been a busy time. For several days I seem to have been glued to the TV watching Brexit – except for this evening when like everyone [...]

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Two Ladies

September 18, 2019

There we were, two of us, though I would rather call us Two Women. One older, one younger, (one me, one my daughter-in-law,) in prime stalls seats at [...]

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A visit to Palestine in 1932….

September 11, 2019

I have mentioned before my late father Professor Joseph M Yoffey`s inability to throw away a diary or a letter, which he inherited from his father Rabbi Israel [...]

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Men with very few women…..

September 4, 2019

Attracted by the zeitgeist of Brexit, Populism, and all that I clicked online to perhaps book tickets at a new play coming shortly. The play is called `Youth [...]

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New Tree Publishing

August 27, 2019

I am preparing to publish my play The Song of Deborah, and have been writing, rewriting, deleting, writing, a `preface` to what will be a slim volume, but [...]

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Homeopathic Walls

August 21, 2019

From today`s Times: “The Queen’s homeopathic pharmacist is selling ground-down fragments of the Berlin Wall to people who believe it will cure asthma and depression. Ainsworths, which has [...]