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In a Catholic reformatory in 1914, three teenage girls (Anne, Theresa, and Lucy) pass the time with masturbation rituals, though they're innocent of the "sinful" nature of the act. Then a belligerent new girl, Joan, shows up, bearing illegal contraband: birth control materials distributed by the women's-rights activist Margaret Sanger. The girls start reading the material and jokingly pretend to venerate Sanger as a saint, but then they undergo a profound conversion experience. They begin to follow Sanger's life in the newspaper, pretending that they're traveling on their own, assassinating enemies and taking lovers at will. Through their letters to each other, they reveal their pasts, marked by abuse. The girls slide deeper and deeper into their illusion, to the extent that objects from their fantasy world start appearing in the real one -- including a baby.
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Women's rights, Drama, History, Birth controlTimes
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What every girl should know
2014, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., Dramatist's Play Service
in English
0822230461 9780822230465
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Cast: 4W
"Commissioned by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern ... and received its world premiere at the Cordoba Center for the Arts in Durham, North Carolina, on April 19, 2012"--page 3.
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