Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using the Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. Her first experiment with this idea described an imaginary woman called Kitty, who became the unlikely protagonist of One Woman Show.

Thrilling… filled with twists in Kitty’s story that compel and captivate… the experimental format carries an enjoyable tale impressively… each wall label is under seventy-five words, and suffused with the language of museums… this style refines eloquently Coulson’s expansive ideas about womanhood and history

Christine Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using the Met's strict label format to describe people as intricate works of art. Her first experiment with this idea described an imaginary woman called Kitty, who became the unlikely protagonist of One Woman Show.

Thrilling… filled with twists in Kitty’s story that compel and captivate… the experimental format carries an enjoyable tale impressively… each wall label is under seventy-five words, and suffused with the language of museums… this style refines eloquently Coulson’s expansive ideas about womanhood and history