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A superb new history play - a feminist courtroom drama that's equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash of searing, up-to-the-minute political and social commentary... a warm, humane and very funny piece, firmly anchored in women's everyday experience.

Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.

With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.

PublisherNick Hern Books
CategoryFull Length Play
ThemePeriod Drama
TypeScript
AuthorLucy Kirkwood
ISBN9781788503105
Music Byn/a
Adapted Byn/a
Based Onn/a
Period Set In18th Century 1759
Set18th Century interiors
Male2
Female13
TypeScript
NationalityBritish
Royalty Playn/a
Sale Price$31.95 (excl. GST and postage)
Our reference78867


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