Stoning Mary (NHB Modern Plays)

debbie tucker green

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781788505154
• Topic: Littérature
• Subtopic: Théâtre britannique

Mysterious yet compelling, bewildering yet intoxicating, a play that mixes poetic rhythms with vernacular phrases, rap-song repetitions with complex psychology.

A husband and wife row about a prescription. A mother and father row about their son, who has become a child soldier. Two sisters row about which one is superior to the other. It emerges that the younger sister, Mary, has killed the child soldier. She is to be stoned to death...

What if all these things were happening here? And what if these people were white?

debbie tucker green's play stoning mary was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in April 2005.

'A theatrical event that brands the conscience as firmly as any hot rod on goatskin... stoning mary is not pretty. It is not easy. But it will wind you with its punch' - Daily Mail

'Works unnervingly well' - Evening Standard

'One of the most assured and extraordinary new voices we've heard in a long while' - Independent

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‘The AIDS Genocide. The Prescription.’

WIFE		‘If you’d putcha hands – put your hands on me –
		If you’d put your hands on me then you’d know – ’
WIFE EGO		said.
WIFE		‘Put your hands on me to know’
WIFE EGO		said
WIFE		‘handle me to know’
WIFE EGO		I said
WIFE		‘handle me. Handle me – handle me – go on.’
		WIFE shows her shaking hands.
		‘Go on.
		Go on. See… can’t.
		Putcha hands on / me’
WIFE EGO		he gives it –
HUSBAND		‘no.’
WIFE		‘Putcha’ –
HUSBAND		‘no.’
WIFE		‘Go on’ –
WIFE EGO		says –
HUSBAND		‘I know.’
WIFE EGO		Says –
HUSBAND		‘I know how to handle’
WIFE EGO		says
HUSBAND		‘I know how to handle you. Know how to handle you to know – ’
WIFE EGO		asks me –
HUSBAND		‘why don’tchu put your hands on me?’
WIFE EGO		Says –
HUSBAND		‘why don’tc...