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."