31 Plays in 31 Days, #15 - "Gutted"

This one I'm not quite sure about. It's another illustration of an important moment in the Hawking marriage. It's something that I'm pretty sure happened in one form of another, but finding the right way to depict it was tricky. Their marriage had its screaming fiery period and it had its icy withdrawn period, but it consistently never had them really being honest with each other about their problems. That can make it really hard to decide what they say— like, maybe they wouldn't say anything at all? But if this is the one moment where something on this subject busted out in twenty years, they've got to say something. But what are the right words for them to use? What would they actually say? This is a particularly low moment, where I have a bit more leeway for them to be more emotionally extreme than usual, but I want it to feel true to the nature of the characters.

Content note for recent stillbirth.

( Day #15 - Gutted )