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Mother MARY

Mother Mary tells the story of Jo Cruz, a butch Puerto Rican lesbian taxi driver in 1968 Boston, who begins giving rides to Catholic schoolteacher Mary O’Sullivan; what starts with shared loneliness, faith, and colonial histories deepens into something beyond friendship as they embark on a transformative road trip for Mary’s lifesaving care.

Depictions of:

• Sex 

• Self-harm (burning with a cigarette)

• Cursing 

• Use of Catholic imagery and language in iconoclastic contexts, including in sex scenes and abortion scenes

• Offensive language targeting queer people, Puerto Rican people, and Irish people 

• Unwanted pregnancy and seeking an abortion

• Minor car accident

Descriptions of:

• Abortion

• Sex (including in a church and with a nun)

• Colonization

Mentions:

• Rape 

• Loss of parents and siblings

• Shipping off to fight in a war

If you’d like more information on the content of Mother Mary, or to receive a preview copy of the script, please reach out to Artistic Director Megan Sandberg-Zakian at megansz@bu.edu.