Following her recent stints as director of Shortland Street and the ever-infamous Living The Dream, Katie Wolfe directs her first work for the stage, helming THE WOMEN - a sassy piece of froth which opens October 13th.

Based on the classic 1930s flick with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell, we're giving it a Sex & The City kinda twist. Set in wholly female domains - fashion houses, beauty parlours, powder rooms, even by the pool in Barbados - we meet the ladies who lunch, but who lunch on each other. These glamorous foxes will be adorned in the latest and greatest from top NZ labels including Zambesi, Liz Mitchell, State of Grace, Trelise Cooper, Laurie Foon, Starfish, RJC, Carlson, Bendon andMoontide - just in time for NZ Fashion Week 04.

Taking a girl's night out to the extreme, this is an absolute hoot, with dialogue so snappy it could have been written by a hairdresser. Mary Haines is a nice girl. Nice house, nice family, nice life. When a vicious little gold-digger hooks her talons into Mary's man, friendships and fidelity fly. Undone by the easy mouths of a troupe of adder-fanged New York socialites, Mary lets down her hair and turns the tables.

Sex, sin and the city - we reckon it'll follow the path of recent Silo Theatre hits such as Danny & The Deep Blue Sea, Closer, Shopping & F***ing, Tape and Under Milkwood.

Image: Katie Wolfe in her former life as Dr Bridget doing a talent quest