The playwright wants to create awareness about injustices encountered by girls and women around the world by the stories in her plays. A World Health Organization report estimated 75% of women in Liberia at the end of the civil war had experienced rape. Gurira interviewed thirty women including former women soldiers and women in the Peace Movement who are credited with forcing an end to the Civil War. The play ends when Charles Taylor leaves Liberia, signaling the winding down of the long civil war. In 1990, at the beginning of the brutal, 14 year Liberian Civil War, the U.S. citizens were evacuated and U.S. involvement, for practical purposes, ended.
