The productionFormerly titled Mary’s Joy and The Joy
The solo performance explores the life of Mary Dyer, hanged in Boston on 1 June 1660 for being a Quaker. She was banished for her faith and executed for refusing compliance.
After five years of performing it, the piece continued to reveal new dimensions of her story and of human nature. Jeanmarie played it for eight years in total, and voiced Mary Dyer again for the 2020 film.
This is production 1 of 9 listed on the site, and it appears in full on the resume alongside every other acting, directing and playwriting credit since 1982.
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Heretic: The Mary Dyer Story
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Heretic: The Mary Dyer Story
In a Boston jail cell on the day before her execution, the Quaker martyr Mary Dyer relives loss, motherhood, religious persecution, and the choices that led her to defy Massachusetts law for freedom of conscience.
