Four determinedly 'liberated' – and very different – women ricochet
around a tiny shared flat, while trying to pull together the shattered
strands of their lives: Dusa is struggling to regain her children from
their father, Fish is losing her lover to another woman, Stas is on the
game to finance the course she wants to study at university, while Vi
steadfastly refuses to eat....
A bitingly sardonic modern classic, widely regarded as an historic icon of early feminism, Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi was first seen at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1976 under the title Dead Fish,
Michael Codron transferred the play to the West End under its new title
where it enjoyed a huge success and established Pam Gems as a major new
voice in British theatre.