Three pickpockets in Seven Dials, London, compare their spoils one dark evening in 1841. Doll, having recently read the last installment of a cheap, popular novel, persuades her two companions to act out a duel from the story. As past resentments come to the surface, however, their play takes a deadly turn.

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"When Ladies Go A-Thieving" was originally performed as a part of The Turnip Theatre Company and American Globe Theatre's 10th Annual Fifteen Minute Play Festival.