There is a strange sense of deja vu in reading Spanner in the Works' mission statement. ". . . Belfast's new all-female theatre company. As a group, we have become increasingly aware of the need for more real opportunities for women in theatre - as performers, directors and writers".
This is precisely where Charabanc came in, back in the early 1980s. Plus ca change - but where Charabanc was composed of mature, professional actresses, this company is young and relatively inexperienced, its core members graduates of the Lyric Drama Studio.
Still, there is no doubting its determination and intent to establish itself. Its debut production is showcased by the Old Museum as part of a series of platform events for emerging and, as yet, unfunded groups.
Under Patricia Downey's direction, three masked performers - Janine Price, Michelle Jackson and Claire Cogan - take us back down the years to the earliest recorded times in Ireland, when women knew their place and men kept them in it.
Their characters are three cleaners, charged with pulling off a succession of tricks of theatrical magic, which caused them to be labelled witches - and punished accordingly.
The tone of performance and production is light-hearted, free and inventive, but the company might have opted for a more challenging starting point than Bryony Lavery's simplistic and rather superficial text.
Here's to the next one.