The world premiere of Queens For A Year is kicking off Hartford Stage’s season.

The drama by T.D. Mitchell shines an intense light on the military and personal consequences of a Marine who goes to bat for a victim of military sexual trauma. Mitchell also wrote for the TV show Army Wives.

Mitchell said the idea of writing about women veterans came to her while she was writing an earlier play about Vietnam War vets.

Click the audio player above to hear Mitchell’s conversation with New England Public Radio’s Susan Kaplan.