The macabre machinations of Henry VIII and his court have been dramatised and studied across all media since they happened, but in Ava Pickett's stellar new play, we get a rare glance at the ordinary, working women of the time, and how their own lives are shaped by the infamous wife-killer's actions. For if a King can kill his wife, the Queen of England, what does that mean for everyone else? A raucous yet moving work that uses modern English to translate the feeling of three normal women in rural Essex, Pickett examines how institutionalising violence against women carries a heavy price that echoes through the centuries.