Synopsis
Penny Royal
Published by Nick Hern Books
0 Male 2 Female
“I think of my body sometimes like it’s stubborn. We’re not good friends. Like it’s a spooky hotel, and I’m just a ghost haunting it. ’Cause you don’t live in a hotel, you just pass through”
When Daphne is diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency at the age of nineteen, her sister Christine steps in to help in the only way she knows how - by donating her eggs
For a while, the world seems corrected
But as the years go by – and Daphne sets out on the long road of IVF – the sisters' relationship begins to twist
Pennyroyal is a heartrending new play about sisterhood and motherhood, enduring love, and regrets many years in the making
Inspired by Edith Wharton's 1922 novella The Old Maid