This blog is all about Under the Poppy: from research through writing to publication with Small Beer Press in November 2010, to an immersive theatrical experience – including live actors and music, film, and aspects of puppetry – that will premiere in Detroit in 2012. It’s been a marvelously surprising journey, and it’s nowhere near over yet.

Please have a look, take in the art, pull a puppet-string or two, breathe in the earthy scents of the brothel and the chilly high-society salon, where you’ll find passion and play-acting, war and betrayal, seduction and valor and a love that lasts a lifetime . . .

Welcome to the world Under the Poppy.