'Can Any Mother Help Me?' based on the book of the same name by Jenna Bailey, focuses on the lives of seven women who started the Co-operative Correspondence Club in response to the initial letter. The club served as a private forum where they exchanged their ideas, opinions and experiences under secret pseudonyms such as Ad Astra, Isis, Waveney, Roberta, Cotton Goods, Yonire and Angharad, for more than 50 years (see feature, 29 March 2007).
Many of the women in the club were well-educated and had had promising careers cut short by marriage and childrearing. Their letters, as brought to life on the stage, depict subjects close to their hearts - childbirth, adoption, divorce, depression and death - in a moving and sometimes humorous way.
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