Mary and the Stripper parallels the stories of Mary Magdalen and Stormie, a modern-day lap-dancer. Both find salvation, in both the religious sense and in escaping from a destructive lifestyle.
This would appear (from the fact that there are more characters mentioned in the programme than actually appear onstage) to be a cut-down version of the play, but unfortunately that cutting down does not work. Whilst the conversion of Mary Magdalen is believable as she meets Jesus, in the case of Stormie we see her in one scene being persuaded to go to church and in the next she has suddenly embraced Christianity and is leaving her former life behind. The entire dramatic crux of the play happens off-stage and we are left at the end feeling not only dissatisfied but cheated.