The drama was expanded for television and broadcast in the UK on 20 July 2022, on BBC 2.
[1] Squires and Ashton are 2 women, both called Mary, attacked by the same man on the same day.
[2] The play was written in the aftermath of the death of school teacher Sabina Nessa and other male violence against women, including the murders of Sarah Everard, Bibaa Henry, Nicole Smallman and Zara Elena in a short space of time in England.
[4] In The Guardian Lucy Mangan described a “rage-filled, agonisingly truthful drama [that] makes every syllable count.. Maryland is weeks, months, years, generations of pain and fury distilled into something truly powerful.
There is catharsis as it points a trembling finger of fury at a world that allows a woman to be killed by a man every three days.”[6] The Evening Standard’s Natasha Tripney said “The film does not have the immediacy of the stage play… it still feels horribly, depressingly necessary.”[7]