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Karen is lonely. Her daughter has gone to university, her husband is an academic with far more to think about than Karen. But Karen has a great group of friends, who pop in for drinks and food and chat. They bicker and bring their own ideas of what Karen should do and what she shouldn't, and they tell stories of their own lives. Because they've each had a pretty interesting life of their own, seeing as they are: Dora Maar (Picasso's Weeping Woman), Mary Seacole (National Treasure and erroneously known as the Black Florence Nightingale), Sylvia Pankhurst (militant Suffragette), and Pamela Churchill Harriman (the greatest courtesan of the 20th century).

Multi-award winning playwright, Gail Louw, is well-known for her depiction of flawed characters and interesting situations.