"What is the Matter with Mary Jane?" is a play about a recovering anorexic and bulimic. Sancia Robinson shares this traumatic period of her life, having fought the disease for over fourteen years. This monodrama takes the audience into the painful reality of a woman afflicted by eating disorders and shows how the realization that her condition was an illness meant that she could begin the slow process of recovery.
In modern society the media ensnares and tempts us with the concept of, "You have to be thin to have it all." Every day, glossy magazines, television, advertising, film, and newspapers, show that it is in to be thin and, therefore, beautiful who shall inherit the fame and fortune. As night follows day, so success, money, fast cars, and glamorous partners will follow the achievement of a virtuously skinny body.
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