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The production was IPHIGENIA, designed and directed by Theodora Skipitares. It was produced by the Ten Thousand Things Theater company in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2005. In 2005, I created a production based on Euripides’ Iphigenia for a Minneapolis company that brings plays to underserved communities. One show was at a women’s jail. It went well, but an alarm sounded as we were packing up. One of the keys to the jail was missing. Every woman inmate was searched and locked down, and our departure was delayed by a half-hour. I had a problem with my kitchen faucet a month later in New York. At the plumbing store, I reached into my bag for the faucet but pulled out a huge brass key with a cutout A on it. An online search identified it as a Folger Adam-brand prison key. An inmate probably stole the key during the performance. Maybe she became scared and slipped it into my bag. I tried contacting the jail, without success. In the end, I decided to “let sleeping dogs lie.”