Premiéred at London's Albany Empire in 1988 and set in Deptford at the
turn of the century this play traces the lives of the girls who work in
the gutting sheds of the Cattle Market and how their lives are changed
when the sheds are closed down. Although the girls are unwilling
participants in a club founded by Lady Helena to find alternative
employment the results are not without tragic consequences.11 women, 6
men