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Three women are rehearsing a play for the International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival today about Countess Markiewicz – the titled revolutionary of the Easter Week Rising. Her pacifist lesbian sister Eva Gore-Booth and her partner were leading their own revolution by publishing a lesbian journal in London in 1916. The tensions between the three actors, their politics and relationships erupt, threatening the production. American feminist playwright Carolyn Gage wrote this play after visiting Kilmainham Gaol during her participation in the IDGTF 07. Gage quotes extensively from both Gore-Booths’ writings in this modern drama about women and revolutions.
