Back for a special limited run of three performances at The Newington Green Meeting House, the spiritual home of Mary Wollstonecraft herself!
Thursday 26th Sept 19:30
Friday 27th Sept 19:30
Saturday 28th Sept 19:30
Centuries after their deaths, a mother and her two daughters reunite for the first time to come to terms with their wounds, their writing, and their reverberations through history.
Mary's Daughters tells the story of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th Century intellectual radical, and mother of Western feminism, along with her two daughters: the forgotten-by- history, illegitimate love-child Fanny Imlay, and the infinitely more famous, author of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. This feminist ghost story plunges the audience into a fluid, poetic, whirlwind tour through the lives, legacies, and times of these three incredible women. Shaped and misshapen by each other, they swap stories and memories, each intercutting and challenging the narrative offered by another. We hear the tireless writings of a genius out of her time, two sisters trying to reconcile the emotional wounds only families can create, and the birth of an iconic monster on the shores of lake Geneva.
This play, written by Kaya Bucholc and Will Wallace, is a rallying cry for a world that centres radical kindness above all things.
Thursday 26th Sept 19:30
Friday 27th Sept 19:30
Saturday 28th Sept 19:30
This performance is part of New Unity's new community arts programme, Arts on the Green. Arts on the Green exists to provide flexible space to radical arts practitioners bringing high quality culture to our community.
www.artsonthegreen.org/whats-on
Paul Dorrington
Simon Glancy
Shirley Anne French
Tom Hanson
Alex Quintana
Ruby Steel
Chris Steel
Christopher Pike
Phil Costick
Peter Ugle
Suicide
Death
Death in childbirth
Child death
Adult language
References to sex
Loss of one’s mother
References to domestic abuse
If you are concerned about attending the performance due to the topics listed, and would like to make an informed choice, please contact BiLLO and ask for our Trigger Warnings PDF, which contains the specific moments from the script for each topic. The document includes all topics, so you do not have to specify where your concern lies.
NB: the script excerpts are copyrighted and are only intended to help you make a more informed decision attending the performance; please do not share the document, or the script with anyone else.
