The playwrights Timberlake Wertenbaker, Alice Birch, E. V. Crowe, and Abi Zakarian were asked to write one play each, answering Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's provocation: "Well-behaved women seldom make history.
The series has been reviewed by major newspapers like The Guardian,[3] The Independent,[4] the Telegraph,[5] or the Birmingham Post,[6] but also by more specialised media, like the feminist blog The F-Word.
It is set in rural Greece after the financial crisis in 2009 and discusses the political situation from a utilitarian capitalistic, an idealistic anti-capitalistic and a disinterested point of view.
Zoe has an independent theatre school on their family estate in Greece which desperately needs attending to in several regards.
She finally comes to visit Zoe in Greece together with Alex, a friend of Selina's who works with hedgefunds in the City of London.
Alex and Selina have made plans for a lucrative use of the Greek family estate and they trick Zoe into signing a contract.
Later she finds out that Selina and Alex have planned to build a hotel where the grandmother's olive trees are now and turn her avantgarde theatre into a tourist attraction.
The grasshopper, on the other hand, prefers singing the whole summer but starves to death in winter without food supplies.
This contradiction between enjoyable tasks and those needed for subsistence is being depicted both in Aesop's fable and Wertenbaker's play.
In the third scene, Wertenbaker refers to different historical radicals, as Bouboulina, a Greek heroine of independence or the British Romanticist writers Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The third scene of Act One is a dialogue between an employer and an employee, referred to as a woman, who wants to work less in order to have more free time.
The fourth and last scene of Act One is set in a supermarket where a woman had been lying on the floor with her dress over her head, exposing her naked, and apparently not very model-like, body together with different kinds of groceries.
[19] Tommy's funeral is the second one that his sister Ruth, freshly emigrated to Dubai with her husband, and father David have had to organise.
Mother Marie's did not attract as many guests as her son's, but this is explained by Ruth by the fact that Tommy was still young and died suddenly in a car crash.
However, they fail to gather important items that remind them of her and David and Ellie are the only ones who see Marie's answer: She does not want to come back to live with them.
Her caring mother, who fought for women's rights in her youth and cannot understand today's lack of political interest, wants to help her become happy like she was as a child.
At the same time, the life coach and career woman Gulch and the new media teenager Ripley do theirs in order to bring Nora back on track.