A three-hander tragic-comedy, Little Gem consists of three female monologists telling in successive scenes their personal histories of love and loss in an alienating contemporary world.
Three generations of Dublin women, Kay (grandmother), Loraine (mother) and Amber (granddaughter) narrate several months of emotional turmoil that they have experienced.
As the play opens Lorraine has experienced something of an emotional break-down in work and has been encouraged by her employers to seek therapy.
Kay’s husband, Gem, has suffered a recent stroke and so is emotionally and physically distant from her, requiring homecare and is unable to feed or dress himself.
The organiser says in an interview that the situation was escalated by someone who called the Secretary of State a fascist and later by the media, which reported the whole thing in a one-sided and highly emotive manner.