- 80 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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Mary's Babies
About this book
A thousand people. Meeting each other. Making friends. Having babies. Sharing their lives.
But whether they know it or not, they all share something else: the same father.
Maud Dromgoole's play Mary's Babies is inspired by the true story of Mary Barton and her husband Bertold Wiesner, pioneers of fertility treatment, who used Bertold's sperm to artificially inseminate up to a thousand women, before destroying the evidence.
This provocative, funny and fascinating play imagines a series of encounters between the half-siblings, known as the 'Barton Brood'. This version of the play premiered at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in March 2019.
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1. KIERAN
It’s 2007.
Oranges are orange.
Humans share fifty per cent of their DNA with a banana.
Which are yellow.
There are twenty-four hours in a day.
A limerick has five lines.
My name is Kieran Taylor.
I don’t like Tomatoes.
The five-year survival rate of stage-two breast cancer is sixty-two per cent.
Thirty-eight per cent is not negligible.
Humans share ninety-nine per cent of DNA with each other, only one per cent makes us unique.
Karen Taylor was born in London 1935.
We share ninety-nine-point-five per cent of our DNA with our parents.
Karen was evacuated to Wales in 1940 and her parents perished in the Blitz in 1943. Karen stayed in Wales and became a maid.
She liked Bakewell tart.
She disliked figs.
She died on Monday at 13:52.
Those things I think are true.
A life is made of facts and for the most part they carry equal weight. You care as much that an apricot has a stone as you do that three thousand children a day die from malaria. They are facts. You don’t particularly engage with them. If your daughter were one of the three thousand you’d probably care immensely about the malaria, and if you were choking on your fruit salad you’d probably care immensely about the stone. But for the most part they are both just facts.
But if you found o...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Original Production
- Acknowledgements
- Dedication
- Mary’s Babies
- About the Author
- Copyright and Performing Rights Information