Mary’s Babies

A NEW DRAMA - MARY’S BABIES

BY Maud Dromgoole

Directed by Tatty Hennessy

Set and costume by Anna Reid
Lighting by Jai Morjaria
Sound by Yvonne Gilbert
Casting by Matilda James

A co-production with Oak Theatre

Mary Barton, a pioneer of fertility treatment, thought her husband was perfect. And doesn’t every child deserve the perfect father? So Mary used her husband’s sperm to impregnate up to a thousand women, and then burnt all the records. A thousand resulting children, the ‘Barton Brood’, with no idea about their shared father. Meeting each other. Making friends. Having babies.

Maud Dromgoole’s play is based on the true story of Mary Barton and the Barton Brood, researched through surveys and interviews. Provocative, funny, and fascinating, it imagines a series of encounters between these unknowing half-siblings.

The press on Maud Dromgoole and Tatty Hennessy’s Acorn.

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Maud Dromgoole is a writer whose plays have appeared at the Bunker, the Courtyard Theatre, the Arcola, Southwark Playhouse, and Tristan Bates Theatres.

Tatty Hennessy is an award-winning playwright, dramaturg and director.

All characters in Mary’s Babies are fictional.

Running time: Around 90 minutes.