Review?Real depth and humility. Brilliant allusions to The Doll's House, revealing added layers of complexity in the characters' web of relationships. The link between Eleanor and Nora in the closing moments has real force...The Crystal Den is very unpretentious and subtle.? ?RSCProduct DescriptionThrough the eyes of the South African born feminist Olive Schreinder, friend, witness and narrator of Eleanor Marx's tragedy, the plot explores real events in the last two generations of the Marx family. The play is set in the 1890s and concerns Edward Aveling, Eleanor's commonlaw husband, whose secret marriage leads to Eleanor's suicide.About the AuthorMarion Baraitser is a commissioned Arts Council and BBC playwright. She is an award winning published playwright, short story writer, translator and editor. She took an M.A. in English Literature at Witwatersrand University, then worked as a teacher and journalist before settling in London. She was tutor in English Literature for Birkbeck Extramural Department, London University for many years and taught Creative Writing for Morley College, City Lit Institute, Women's Theatre Workshop. In 1996 with an Arts Council award, and with grants from UNESCO and the European Jewish Publications Society, she started her own press, Loki Books, specialising in new fiction in translation from minority languages by women. As editor of ?Plays by Mediterranean Women? she attended the ?Women Writers Talk Peace? conference in March 1997 in Israel on a British Council travel award. She lives in London with her children and husband.