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Chamber Music is a 1962 one-act play by absurdist playwright Arthur Kopit. The story is set in 1938 and concerns eight famous women from different historical periods who all are interned in the same insane asylum. The women are — or at least believe they are — author Gertrude Stein martyr Joan of Arc activist Susan B. Anthony politician Queen Isabella I of Spain Constanze Mozart (wife of the famed composer) pilot Amelia Earhart silent-film actress Pearl White and explorer Osa Johnson.