Mary, Mary…

• Written and Directed by
• Rowenna Mortimer

Cast

• Mary Wollstonecraft – Helena Collins O’Connor
• Shovet – Harry Boyd

What did audiences remember most about  Mary, Mary…?

Performed in St Pancras Old Church, Kings Cross for A Celebration of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) Academic Conference 2019, and Swann’s Dry Cleaners, The Hub and Conway Hall for the Bloomsbury Festival 2018.

A theatre performance inspired by the pioneering activist Mary Wollstonecraft and her book ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’.

Mary, Mary… at the Bloomsbury Festival is a Research and Development project for script and performance. Inspired by the pioneering activist Mary Wollstonecraft and her work ‘A Vindication of the Rights of Woman’ it explores meeting points between the personal and political worlds and Mary’s ideas for a revolution in women’s behaviour and role in society.

Mary, Mary… involves rehearsal through a process of collective creation and three performances at three different festival venues. The project aims to develop and test out ideas for a full length stage play.

• Written by Luis Cunille
• Translated by Lola Lopes Ruiz
• Directed by Rowenna Mortimer
• Designed by Phil Newman
• Sound design by Akemi Ishijima

Cast

• Liz Guimaraes
• Rowenna Mortimer

“A dreamlike urban setting in three short acts…”

“the power of the play lies in it’s open-endedness…”

“thought-provoking and probing”

at the Steiner Theatre (now the Marylebone Theatre)

• Written by Bernard Marie Koltes
• Translated by Matthew Ward
• Directed by Thierry Lawson

Cast

• Michael Jempeji
• Phil Mason
• Rowenna Mortimer
• Oliver Mannion

“The Struggle of the Dogs and the Black represents arguably the pinnacle of Koltes’ career as a playwright.”
CA Upton

“ Quite simply about a place”
B-M Koltes

at Teatro Technis