The Laments is a performance work developed from Act II of Gal Gaia / Mother Right, a four-act theater work Nalls wrote in 1989. The Laments focuses on the contemporary manifestation of ancient female reason. Seven guides call on the United Nations: a Native American and six Greek Goddesses who are summoned back to the world to help give voice to the spiritually oppressed.

In January 1995 a workshop performance of The Laments took place at Franklin Furnace in New York. A taped performance was screened at the NGO Forum on Women '95 Film Festival, Huairou, China&emdashpart of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.