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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 2
  • Male: 0
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
St Saviours home for mothers and babies, 1964
Act/Scene
Scene 6

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START: MATRON. Come.

MATRON snaps the compact shut. Enter MARY, clutching a copy of The Lady magazine and a letter.

MARY. Matron?

MATRON. Mary?

[... …]

END: MATRON. And what would that do to your mother?

MARY puts the telephone down.

I met a lady and gentlemen last week. Beautiful house on the coast. Desperate for a child of their own. After ten years, they say the hardest thing is losing hope.

Amanda Whittington, Be My Baby, Nick Hern Books, 2014, pp.28-32.

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