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The Insanity of Mary Girard — Overview and Script PDF guidance

Summary

The Insanity of Mary Girard is a 1980 one-act play by Lanie Robertson. It dramatizes the confinement of Mary Girard (based on a real 18th-century Philadelphia woman) in an insane asylum. The play focuses on themes of patriarchal control, psychiatric mistreatment, motherhood, grief, and the social/legal constraints on women. Its structure mixes realistic scenes with surreal interactions between Mary and the spectral figures (doctors, her husband, and memory-figures) who interrogate and gaslight her, blurring sanity and institutional power.

The Play: A Psychological Thriller

Reading the script feels like drowning.

• Internet Archive: may have borrowable copies of published playbooks; you can borrow a scanned edition for short-term reading using a free account.
• HathiTrust or Google Books: sometimes offer limited previews or full-view copies depending on copyright status.