In 1726, a poor, illiterate 25-year-old servant named Mary Toft became pregnant, and she tricked doctors into thinking she could give birth to rabbits. News of her miraculous births spread throughout ...

Mary Toft was a woman from Godalming, who achieved notoriety in 1726 when she purportedly gave birth to a litter of rabbits. In reality, the animal parts Toft “delivered” were being surreptitiously ...

EMP Collective is proudly presenting their second theatre piece of 2012: A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits by playwright C. Denby Swanson, directed by Elissa Goetschius. In 1726, ...