Mary’s Daughters Archives - North West End UK

Three women, one legacy, and a ghostly reunion that’s far sharper than it sounds. I step into theSpace @ Triplex on the final day of the run, catching Mary’s Daughters just in time. What I see is well worth the last minute decision - a tight, intelligent piece of theatre with super acting that leaves me thinking that it should have run longer. We arrive to a thrust stage strewn with papers and feathers, as if the past itself has been ransacked. Out of this visual chaos, three figures emerge hurrying around in all directions, confused ghosts. Mary Wollstonecraft, played with commanding empathy by Megan Carter, her lesser-known daughter Fanny Imlay, portrayed with delicate intensity by Kaya Bucholc, and the more famous Mary Shelley, given a finely balanced mix of literary gravitas ...

Why do we tell ghost stories? To titillate? To frighten? To inspire? To warn? To grieve? To honour? Mary’s Daughters, written by Kaya Bucholc and Will Wallace and directed for The Space Theatre by Kay Brattan, attempts all of these feats. A haunting triplet performance by Megan Carter as Mary Wollstonecraft, Rachael Reshma as Mary Shelley, and Kaya Bucholc as Shelley’s forgotten half-sister and Wollstonecraft’s “unfortunate girl,” Fanny Imlay, sets out to right the wrongs of history and restore a legacy to three women who despite their brilliance did not get the option to control their own historical narratives. Many of the salacious details of the three women’s lives long known in fun fact format and prized as illuminating context by scholars of their works are here fleshed out, rep...

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Mary’s Daughters – theSpace Triplex

Mary’s Daughters – The Space Theatre