Three Minute Theatre

In the late 1700s a ship sets sail from England to Australia with a cargo of female convicts. Madge, Pitty, Nance, Winnie, Charlotte and Sarah are all bound for work camps in Australia - if the journey doesn't kill them first. Six months in a tiny cabin under the watchful eye of a sadistic sergeant, slowly coming to the realisation that society doesn't care about them and never has, the girls must stick together or they will all fall apart.

First performed in 1973 at the Half Moon theatre in London, 2013 marks the 40th anniversary of Female Transport and the show remains as acerbic, moving, and darkly funny as ever.