Two strong women match wits in  Lettice and Lovage — the flamboyant Lettice Duffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and medieval weaponry and Lotte Schon, an inspector from the Preservation Trust.  As a tour guide at Fustian House, one of the least stately of London’s stately homes, Lettice theatrically embellishes its historical past, ultimately coming up on the radar of Schon. Neither impressed nor entertained by Lettice’s freewheeling history lessons, Schon fires her.  Not one to go without a fight, Lettice engages the stoic, conventional Schon in battle to the death of all that is sacred to the Empire and the Crown.  This hit by the author of Equus and Amadeu featured a triumphant award-winning performance by Dame Maggie Smith in London and on Broadway.