This play was specially created by Max Ornetti, director of the "Ecole des Planches" theatre company in Avallon, at the request of the "Passe Pierre" association, a neighbourhood association in Semur en Auxois, to highlight five prominent women. Gabrielle Suchon, Emilie du Châtelet, Olympe de Gouges, Henriette d'Angevine and Anna Judic all shared the same desire to escape the norms imposed by the society of their time and the same desire to make their dreams come true, in addition to a more or less close link with Semur en Auxois. They lived at different times, between the 17th century and the end of the 19th century, and came from different backgrounds, some born into large families, others from modest backgrounds. In their respective eras, most women had neither the right to education, nor civil or political rights. Even forms of physical freedom (clothing, sports, etc.) were forbidden to them. All of them refused to be submissive and demonstrated their freedom and their "pioneering" character through their studies, their writing, their public speaking, their lifestyle choices and their exploits, despite being denigrated and ridiculed: in a word, they chose independence.
