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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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 [...]

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The name of my new play publishing company is…..

August 14, 2019

We`re in the middle of summer…but lots happening. My project of publishing The Song of Deborah this year is moving along nicely, and I am also continuously editing [...]

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Messages from the stars in the sky.

July 31, 2019

Last night I saw The Starry Messenger, by Kenneth Lonergan, at Wyndhams. I have no idea why the reviews we read gave it 3 stars. Only one reviewer, [...]

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Cupboards full of letters, files full of clippings, and more.

July 27, 2019

This week Jeff and I went to Manchester and revisited the Rabbi I J Yoffey archive, stored in box-files in Manchester Central Library. Israel Jacob Yoffey was my [...]