Maryland

Maryland is a British dramatic television film written by Lucy Kirkwood, based on Kirkwood’s play of the same name which was staged at the Royal Court in London in October 2021. The drama was expanded for television and broadcast in the UK on 20 July 2022, on BBC 2. Synopsis Squires and Ashton are 2 women, both called Mary, attacked by the same man on the same day. They meet at a police station as they report their attacks. Cast Hayley Squires as Mary Zawe Ashton as Mary Daniel Mays as PC Moody Justine Mitchell Zainab Hasan Jennifer Joseph Sarah Lam Gabriella Leon Sarah Woodward Production 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. Kirkwood was quoted as saying it was “a howl against the way we have normalised violence against women as something to be accommodated by women themselves, rather than protested by all of us” and “the way that women, especially women of colour, cannot at present even rely on the forces of law and order to protect or respect their bodies.”