Throughout history women have been continuously struggling to get out from under the wheel of oppression. From the sixteenth century when women were forbidden from acting in the theatre; to merely one hundred years ago when women were not allowed to vote; to the fifties and sixties when women were pressured to stay home and “mind the house;” and to today where we are still battling for true intersectional equality. Time and time again women have been portrayed in stories and in real life as damsels and as victims - but what happens when we fight back and become the oppressors? What if we were as cold, as harsh and as brutal as the world has always been to us? BONNETS (How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder) places femininity in a new darkness where we ladies cater to our impulses of killing all those who we feel have wronged us. This environment is meant to encase these characters in a reflective harsh and cold world, watched over and critiqued by an objective, almighty “God” who inevitably shatters the fourth wall and joins the female rock band, “Bonnets.” 

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