Bend playwright Cricket Daniel has returned with her latest stage comedy, “The Lost Virginity Tour.” Directed by Marla Manning, the play makes its world premiere Friday at 2nd Street Theater in Bend.

Things kick off with a meeting of the four members of Surprise, Arizona’s Happy Trails Baking Club — vivacious divorcee Viola (played by Jennifer Collins), rambunctious, still-married Rita (Mary Kilpatrick), down-to-earth widow Elaine (Sherie Neff) and Southern, never-married Kitty (Gloria Anderson). We meet the four as they convene at Happy Trails, their Arizona retirement community, to tease, bicker, wax nostalgic and, of course, munch on alcohol-laced cookies.

Viola suggests they visit, or revisit, the places where each woman lost her virginity 40-give-or-take years ago, and we’re soon off to the races, just as the play’s title promises.

“They take off, and we have four tour stops — and tour T-shirts,” Daniel said. “They’re friends, but it takes this road trip to really bond them as family. Some of them, it’s all they have. Elaine’s a widow. Kitty’s by herself, and Vi. They live for that baking club. They live for these ladies, and then, this tour just really bonds them.”

It’s a risque and funny show, toggling between bawdy humor and moving reveals about the human heart.

“It’s not a comedy, per se,” Daniel said. “I think I’ve really stretched my playwriting muscles on this one. It’s different for me. It’s not in the gutter. It’s not rated R.”

There’s clear chemistry among the actresses, each of whom is well-cast in her respective role. If you liked Daniel’s 2014 play, “Helen on Wheels,” odds are good you’ll find something to like here, too: Both shows involve rowdy, funny women having more fun than society sanctions for women of a certain age.

Daniel calls it “Golden Girls” meets “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.”

“Nobody is writing for this age,” she said. “We’re talking about four older women in starring roles. This is very much an ensemble. These are humongous roles, and meaty roles.”

Daniel’s shows have been produced or given stage readings from Klamath Falls to Florida.

In December, the Equity Library Theater of New York City held two stage readings of her holiday comedy, “The Night Before the Night Before Christmas.”

Absent an agent and publisher, Daniel researches theaters’ seasons around the country and submits query emails to entice them to stage shows she thinks would be a good fit at their theater.

“It is exhausting,” she said. “I’ll probably get anywhere from 10 to 25 hits, and they’ll all be nos but maybe one or two.” Theater companies are reluctant to take risks on new playwrights, according to Daniel.

Occasionally, however, a play will click. “Helen on Wheels” is being staged in Santa Clara, California, with its opening night on Friday, the same evening as “Lost Virginity Tour” debuts in Bend.

Daniel is among Bend’s more prolific playwrights, at least of those whose plays also make it to the stage here. Over the last decade, she’s written about one full-length show per year. Her first two plays, “Couple Dating” and “Love, Laughter and Lucci,” debuted elsewhere, but each of her subsequent plays have made their premieres at 2nd Street Theater, which keeps open a spot in its season for Daniel.