GamePlan, along with FlatSpin, was originally intended to be part of a pair of plays, both set in the London Docklands, and both using the same cast of seven.

[1] The pair of plays was eventually joined by a third, RolePlay, written as an afterthought, and the trilogy, Damsels in Distress, was shown in the Stephen Joseph Theatre's 2001 season.

She now cleans the offices she once managed (hence the early start and the smoking), whilst her husband ran off with her business partner to live abroad.

Kelly has brought, from her own savings, her maid's outfit, Sorrel's call girl underwear (so tight she can hardly breathe), and contraceptives.

He is Leo Tyler, a mild-mannered man bearing flowers, tutting at the dirty magazines left for him, and more interested in talking about himself and his late wife.

When Leo goes to the bedroom, she talks to Kelly about the noises call girls are supposed to make during sex, and starts to show doubts about the act.

In the middle of the night, Kelly comes back, and she and Sorrel quietly carry out Leo's body (which they hid earlier) and throw him over the balcony into the Thames.

She has just finished the chat when Lynette comes in with a bottle of cheap pink bubbly and announces that she has finally got a job, as a publisher for a small religious book group.

But before the row end two police officers arrive at the door: Dan Endicott, who does the questioning, and Grace Page, who contributes Biblical quotations.

In the final scene, Kelly is helping Lynette and Sorrel pack to move, clearly in advanced stages as boxes now litter the whole flat.

Although no-one was arrested (owing to the police failing to pin down exactly how Leo died), word has got round about Lynette's confession.

Troy goes outside to check with his office, whilst Lynette gets out the bottle of pink bubbly (left untouched since the police visit) on standby.

With the bottle ready, the play instantly ends just as the door opens, giving the impression that, whatever happens, the friendship of the three women will survive.

[5] The first West End performance was at the Duchess Theatre, opening on 7 September 2001, and featured the same cast and production team.

[4] However, the success of RolePlay over the other two productions led to GamePlan being sidelined, along with FlatSpin, until eventually it was shown only once a week, to the disappointment of both Ayckbourn and the cast.

John Peter, for The Sunday Times, praised the comedy scene where Sorrel tries to get Leo's attention with her unerotic gestures,[9] but Michael Billington saw it as "the desperate pathos of a schoolgirl seeking to vamp an older man".

Jeremy Kingston wrote for The Times: "The two policemen are caricatures, and to make one of them prone to long biblical quotes is a pretty desperate attempt to flesh out a character", although the same scene was positively received by Dave Windass of The Stage.

The trilogy as a whole received positive reviews, and GamePlan was generally deemed much stronger than FlatSpin, but most praise was reserved for RolePlay.