The main characters in Bold Girls are Marie, Cassie, Nora and Deirdre. Male characters are talked about but do not appear directly.

Bold Girls is a play set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. But this is the backdrop, rather than the main focus, of the characters.

A number of themes are explored in Bold Girls, including truth, political and religious conflict, conflict between dreams and reality and between characters, the status of women, reality of marriage.