While the brides and grooms wait for their wedding day, the characters raise issues of gender politics, love, and domestic violence.
The first production of the play was directed by Les Waters at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville in 2000.
In a 2003 interview with Open Stages newsletter, Mee said, "[I wanted to go back to what some people thought was one of the earliest plays of the Western World, which is The Suppliant Women, and see how that would look today.
It’s all about refugees and gender wars and men and women trying to find what will get them through the rubble of dysfunctional relationships, and anger and rage and heartache.
...You know, unlike so much drama on television, where there’s a small misunderstanding at the top of the hour that you know is going to be resolved before the final commercial break.