I almost lost interest in this play at the outset because it seemed so implausible. Two school contemporaries (not friends) meet, at the instigation of the one (Heather) who has succeeded more in a material sense at least. However, she has not had a child. On the other hand her companion (Carla) has children very readily and is pregnant when they meet. Within minutes Carla is offering to have a surrogate child but this offer is rejected by Heather in favour of asking to kill Heather's husband.
After some playing hard to get, this deal is agreed. At this point the play takes a darker and more interesting series of twists as the hidden agenda come out. The to-be-killed husband has been unfaithful, first to a fantasy online mistress, the creation of his wife but more importantly to Carla who is a part-time prostitute. Not only that but the richer woman has a festering score to settle with the other who turns out to have been her tormentor at school. The two woman have it out in an apparently empty house (the husband supposedly having been finished off and put in the fridge). Heather sets up an ending in which Carla saves herself by stabbing Heather, only to be shocked at the close by hearing the supposedly dead husband enter the house. The audience members are left to complete the ending in their mids eye as they make their ways home!
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