Executed with surgically frightening precision, this work shows how the repeal of Roe v Wade plays out for women. Justice is blind, and the law is an ass is the powerful message in Arlene Hutton’s play; she rage-wrote the first few pages one afternoon in February 2022 as speculative fiction.

Public policy is the art of shaping individual lives, and when Nessa (Dana Brooke) loses an early-term foetus in an inter-state flight, the results are harrowing. Dialogue between Nessa and Val (Elisabeth Nunziato), a god-fearing Dallas lawyer with a tribe of kids of her own, reveals the backstory. A minefield of potential serious crimes, not to mention the health risk to Nessa, are uncovered through Val’s representation of the unborn, dead, foetus. But law-makers refuse to recognise this; legislators are excited about using Nessa as a test case.

There are a few rough patches, notably a telephone conversation between Val and her male colleagues that portray her as a ballsy woman, contradicting her actions as a foot soldier for the patriarchy in taking the case. But perhaps that’s the reality of well-educated women trying to navigate a man’s world. Ultimately this play reminds us that despite feminism’s achievements, equality, like democracy, is always precarious.

Blood Of The Lamb, The Courtyard Of Curiosities At The Migration Museum, until 17 March (not 11 March), times vary.