The play follows Professor Ruth Wolff, the Founding Director of the Elizabeth Institute, who refuses to let a Catholic priest into the operating room where a girl is dying from a botched self-administered abortion.
Each of the panellists question Ruth’s intention for prohibiting the priest’s entrance, who is later revealed to be a Black man, and criticize her refusal to identify with labels.
[7] The play headlined the Adelaide Festival in early 2020, completing its run narrowly before the coronavirus pandemic closed theatres worldwide.
The Adelaide Festival cast had been contracted to play a run in the West End starting in April 2020, but this was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
[10] In 2021, the same creative team premiered a Dutch-language version at Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, in a translation by Aus Greidanus Jr and starring the actors of the ITA ensemble.