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Context
Sally Poppy was found guilty of the murder of Alice Wax, the daughter of the wealthy landowners in the town. She claimed pregnancy to evade the noose, and the doctor confirmed it. However, behind closed doors, Lady Wax (Alice’s mother) bribed the bailiff to beat Sally up and bring on a miscarriage. She is left writhing on the floor in pain and in a pool of blood. The town midwife, Lizzy, is with her. Lizzy has recently been revealed as Sally’s mother, despite the lack of any obvious maternal
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START: SALLY. What you doing!
ELIZABETH. It’s time. Not having that mob see you with a dirty face.
She looks up, out the window.
Oh. Sally, look.
SALLY. What?
[...]
END: ELIZABETH. Let your eyes adjust, you been all day in a dark room. It’s there, below the cloud that looks like a broom, see?
SALLY. What cloud? Where?!
ELIZABETH affects a brightness in her voice.
ELIZABETH. There! In the highest part of the sky. A smudge, fouling the blue.
SALLY cranes to see.
SALLY. Where? I honestly cannot…
ELIZABETH begins to move the laces over SALLY’s head.
SALLY. Oh
Sudden black.
Lucy Kirkwood. The Welkin. NHB Modern Plays (electronic edition), 2020.
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