we have been blessed to have that work produced in new york going on to the edinburgh festival the warsaw theater festival. to me those are great things when you can watch artists who think there is nowhere else that might be interested in you being a woman of color and telling your story and then getting excited about it. that is our biggest accomplishment. having artists have become better artists. what is. sheri coming back to brava, here you have this establish, amazing writer who has won a clue -- slew of awards. now she gets to director and work. even though she is this amazing, established writer, the truth is, she is being nurtured as a director and is being given some space to direct. >> the play is described as ceremony and -- where ceremony and theater me. in the indigenous tradition, when you turn 52, it is like the completion of an important era. the importance of the ceremony is to say, you are 52. whenever you have been caring for the first 52 years, it is time to let it go. really here, they have given me carte blanche to do this. i think it is nice for me in the sense of

it began in late 2000, mary was a single mother living in edinburgh when she met a man named will jordan. >> he was charming. he was tall. he was good looking. and he just seemed to be, you know, a really, really nice guy. >> reporter: he told her he was from america, and worked in i.t. she found him highly intelligent, humble, and family-oriented. >> he would play games and stuff. >> it's him. oh yay, we're gonna have fun today. >> reporter: but just as mischele lewis would experience it years later, mary also grew frustrated with his frequent absences. >> i wasn't happy with it at all. so i started digging into his background a bit and trying to find out more about him. >> reporter: mary, in her private detective mode, traced will jordan to an address, and when she peeked over the fence into the house's yard, she saw children's toys. she confronted him. >> he sat down and said, "i have something to tell you. and he explained to me that he was working for the odci, more commonly known in the u.k. as cia. >> reporter: that house with toys in the yard? he explained it was actually a safe-