Love, Loss & What I Wore is a play written by women, acted by women and exclusively concerned with women. So is it only to be enjoyed by women? Emphatically not. And I write as one – a man – best qualified to speak on the subject.

This brisk and witty entertainment (two hours with interval) is based on a best-selling book by Ilene Beckerman, transformed for the stage by gifted writer sisters Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally) and Delia Ephron (You’ve Got Mail). A big-hit on Broadway, it featured a changing cast of big-name stars, rather in the fashion of The Vagina Monologues, to which it bears obvious comparison.

“We always called it The Vagina Monologues without the vaginas,” confesses Delia Ephron concerning its compsition. Sex, as it happens, is but one fairly minor ingredient of the show which uses (as the programme explains) “fashion, accessories and the memories that they trigger to tell funny, startling and often poignant stories”.

A consistent character throughout comes in the appealing shape of Gingy, played by Louise Jameson. Her stories are told in more detail than the others and one soon comes to suspect that she is the alter ego of author Ilene, which suspicion is confirmed at the end. The setting (designer Eileen Diss) is of the simplest, consisting of five black-topped stools in front of five doors set into a back screen on to which black-and-white images of the past are projected.A rack of clothes supply almost the only props.

Alongside Ms Jameson are the always reliable Rula Lenska, Rachel Fielding, Cleo Syvestre and Sarah Lawrie. Sometimes on the stage alone, they appear at other times in combination, interactions well managed under director Sarah Berger, as their touching tales are told.

Until September 26. millatsonning.com