A Special Evening in Support of Flo’s Girls

A play by Catherine Vaneri

Florence Nightingale lived in 1800’s England, a time when a woman’s life was narrowly circumscribed. Well-born, she committed the great transgression of daring to see behind the veil of civilized society, into the world of poverty, disease and despair – and, worse, of daring to act on what she saw.

In Flo’s Girls, a play in two acts written and performed by Catherine Vaneri, we see Nightingale as a real, live human being, as full of eccentricity and doubt as she was of vision and grit. Her journey, which led through difficult years of bitter opposition and war, saw the establishment of Nursing as a recognized and respected profession. Her legacy is that of a revolutionized philosophy and practice of how we care for others, whose influence in our health care continues to this day.