The Women

The Women is a “modern” old-fashioned comedy of manners that opened on Broadway in 1936 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre with an all-female cast that included Arlene Francis, Marjorie Main and Doris Day. It is a satire on the idleness of wealthy wives and divorcees. The gossiping, back-stabbing, disloyalty and sneakiness they display for unseen men is what gives the play it’s bones. Women only — No men. The Irony, the play is ‘all about men’.