An evocative, dynamic and touching new play, bringing to life the funny and often moving stories of a group of women whose lives became intimately connected through the simple act of writing letters.

From marriage to childbirth, hidden desires to socialism, housework to wartime politics, the story of the Cooperative Correspondence Club delves into lifelong friendships and domestic tragedies and allows us an opportunity for that most human of pleasures, eavesdropping.

Following the sell-out success of their last creation, Thatcher The Musical, Foursight Theatre, renowned for their distinctive style of ensemble theatre, turn from the epic to the everyday with a poignant production, featuring live music, which proves that there is no such thing as an ordinary life.

“I wept as I read it…Grand girls, ordinary goddesses: I wish I’d known them, by the end I felt I did.”
The Guardian on Jenna Bailey’s book