Jackie Sibblies Drury Archives

Six women stand in two rows. The front row features three Black women in clothing of different eras; the woman on the left is in a bloodstained nurse's apron. In the back are three other women of different ethnicities, also wearing clothing of different eras. A white hoop hangs from the ceiling behind them.

Too many Marys

by Kelly Kleiman October 13, 2022October 13, 2022

Playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury had too many things in mind when she wrote this play about Mary Seacole, a real-life Jamaican-born healer who improbably served in the 19th-century Crimean War. Drury wanted to tell the story of this indomitable woman who wouldn’t take no for an answer, even from the equally implacable Florence Nightingale. She […]