Tonight’s the night! Katy Stephens and Emma Fielding star in the world premiere of Maud Dromgoole’s new two-hander Mary’s Babies, inspired by the true story of fertility pioneer Mary Barton. Check out our gallery of first-look production photos – and then get booking!
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.
Emma Fielding and Katy Stephens star in Mary’s Babies, a fictional tale inspired by the true story of Mary Barton and the Barton Brood. Provocative, comic, and compelling, Maud Dromgoole‘s new play imagines a series of encounters between these unknowing half-siblings.
A co-production with Oak Theatre, Mary’s Babies is directed by Tatty Hennessy, with set and costume by Anna Reid, lighting by Jai Morjaria, sound by Yvonne Gilbert and casting by Matilda James. Mary’s Babies is part of Jermyn Street’s Portraits Season, celebrating the venue’s 25th birthday as an independent theatre in the heart of the West End.
Show photos
Production photography by Robert Workman.
Preview audiences have been raving already…
ROLLERCOASTER 🎢
Loved #JSTMarysBabies @JSTheatre with brilliant @mauddromgoole script 🔥 directed by @TattyHennessy 🎭 as @emmagafielding and @katystephens69 play dozens of characters 👶 on a rollercoaster ride of raw revelations about how they’re connected#youabsolutecushion pic.twitter.com/LTfkzU9CyR— helenjerome (@helenjerome) March 21, 2019
