Product Description: An exciting project in which nine established female playwrights grapple with the complexities of women and politics in Britain's past. Includes Rebecca Lenkiewicz's The Lioness, about Elizabeth I and marriage; Marie Jones' The Milliner and the Weaver, about suffragettes in Ireland; Moira Buffini's Handbagged, in which Margaret Thatcher meets the queen; and Lucy Kirkwood's Bloody Wimmin, about nuclear weapons protest "and all that...read more

Features three plays that are suitable for one actress - all featuring mothers on the edge: 'Jordan' by Moira Buffini and Anna Reynolds; 'The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret' by Catherine Johnson; and 'Unsuspecting Susan' by Stewart Permutt.