[1] Although Campos' original work was not published, it was successfully adapted by director Guido Navarro in 1990 under the title La Marujita se ha muerto con leucemia.
[8] Cleta, Abrilia, and Encarna are three women of advanced age and medium-high social status that make up Las Dignas Damas del Comité (The Dignified Ladies of the Committee), a group that meets to discuss matters related to the organization of charities.
[6] Both in the original play and its spin-offs, the three characters mainly touch on the theme of regionalism in Ecuador, provoking in the public the ability to laugh at themselves, their campanilismo [es] (parochialism), and their inability to tolerate the country's ethnic and cultural diversity.
[3][7] In the 2006 spin-off Las Marujas Navideñas, the three women convene their committee to organize a Christmas gala, but they find themselves in trouble because they cannot complete their nativity scene, so they establish a comic game with the public to induce them to be part of it.
[14] In 2018, Las Marujas entre ineptos y tereques was put on as a posthumous tribute to the actress Martha Ormaza, Encarna's portrayer, who had died that year.