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Mary's Babies, Jermyn Street Theatre review - rollercoaster investigation of the results of early fertility treatment

by Heather Neill

Two-hander provides multifarious acting opportunities but insufficient focus Obstetrician Dr Mary Barton had the best of intentions. As a missionary in India she had observed the poor treatment of childless women and, back home in England, she took positive action to help women who wanted babies. This being the period between the late 1930s and 1967, there was as yet no legal framework for artificial inseminati…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 8:45pm on March 25, 2019