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The title for this play is taken from a little known nursery rhyme, which involves a game between mother and child. The drama opens in the elegant reception room of a clinic where five women await a first reunion with their children from who they have been separated for two months. As the scene proceeds, their discomfort escalates; the tension, now palpable, suggests there are more complicated issues at play. It seems the children have been participants in an unusual experiment - never fully revealed. The women continue to wait... collective pawns in a situation over which they have no control. Their personal reactions to the stress reveal much about their characters.
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