March 2021 – Maureen Younger

Emilia

Emilia by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm is a fine piece of feminist theatre, a call-to-arms, which also happens to be informative, funny, thought-provoking, sad and life-affirming, and if you’re a woman, highly relatable. The Emilia in question is the daughter of immigrants, the ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets, brought up to be a courtesan at Elizabeth […]

The Memory of Water

In this play by Shelagh Stephenson, three squabbling sisters reunite for their mother’s funeral in this comic tale of inter-family relations. The play underscores how subjective memories can be: different people remembering different things and/or remembering the same events but often differently. The three sisters in question are Mary, a doctor, desperate for her married […]

An Ordinary Day

A Short Story by Maureen Younger from my forthcoming collection – An Ordinary Day That was the day I thought I was going to be raped and murdered. It’s strange how such an ordinary day can turn on a sixpence. You think there would be some kind of sign: an ear-splitting thunderstorm raging in […]