years of being overlooked. Having toiled in a male- dominated office setting for years, Louise has never been noticed for her efforts, and has in fact sat back while others have been promoted over her—mainly men. Louise has had enough—she has given up everything, including a healthy social life, to succeed on the terms the patriarchy has dictated, and has wound up with little to show for it. These anxieties and frustrations represent a new kind of story within the world of the play; surely Louise is better off than Nijo, a courtesan, or Gret, a peasant woman, but as far as she has come from the pains of her forbearers, she is still unable to carve out a satisfying space for herself in this man’s world. Now, Louise wants to make her employers realize just how much she’s done for them, and just how much they’re losing in overlooking her.