[6] In February 2017, Nottingham Playhouse celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the play with a new production starring Vicky McClure as Sandra.
[7] Five of the cast were graduates of the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham: Vicky McClure, Aisling Loftus, Chloe Harris, Luke Gell and George Boden.
The play focuses on a group of women in a working-class suburb of Nottingham, especially Sandra and her sisters, Joan and Betty.
"[9] Lowe was inspired to write the play by his mother: "I grew up on the usual pulp of heroic war films and comics...
"[10] As critic Lyn Gardner says, the play reflects “both the social mores of the time and the inner emotional lives of these down-to-earth women.