G&Ts with very bitter lemons . . .

3Women (Trafalgar Studios) Verdict: Lots of laughs ★★★✩✩

YOU will probably know comic Katy Brand from her TV series, where she winningly guyed everyone from Kate Winslet to Lady Gaga. Now she has written a play about three generations of women.

It’s the night before Suzanne (Debbie Chazen) gets married and her dull fiance, Gary, has booked a posh hotel room for her and her widowed mother, Eleanor (Anita Dobson), and Laurie (Maisie RichardsonSellers), the daughter Suzanne brought up alone.

It doesn’t take long for the secrets and lies to seep out. Recently retired Eleanor, for whom motherhood destroyed her plans for a stellar career, has long medicated her 3Women: Waspishly funny resentment with stiff G&Ts, while low-achieving Suzanne — ‘I’m a freelance!’ — is a disappointment to her.

Laurie, meanwhile, a heady mix of teenage certainties and vulnerability, adds to the emotionally charged evening with a revelation of her own.

Brand has a talent for waspish one- liners, and Dobson — who has most of them — delivers each with relish. Chazen brings warmth to Suzanne, while RichardsonSellers delivers lines such as ‘I don’t like to define myself by heteronormative traditions’ as if she means them.

3Women sometimes feels as if Brand had a list of issues about women she wanted to address and formed a drama around them. But while there’s speech-ifying and a predictable resolution, it has heart and lots of laughs.