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In early 2020, Joanne Zipay, founder of New York’s award-winning Judith Shakespeare Company, was preparing to direct a play in Fort Worth later that year. Into the Breeches! by George Brant tells the story of a (fictional) group of women who decide to keep their local theatre alive by taking on the men’s roles in The Henriad , an amalgamation of several of Shakespeare’s plays about wars. Set in Fort Worth in 1942, she needed to research what life was like on the home front during the war years. She heard an ad on local station KEOM-FM about an area veteran’s presentation at the BFTS Museum and came from her home in Plano to hear it.