The Silent Twins: Now a major motion picture starring Letitia Wright

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ELIZA SMITH, BYLINE: Like most twins, June and Jennifer Gibbons had an innate bond. They had grown up on an army base in Wales. They started talking late and when they finally did speak, their words came out garbled. They chirped and squeaked, enunciating the wrong syllables. No one else could understand them. It was like they were speaking a foreign language.

WALLACE: This is June. (Reading) Nobody suffers the way I do, not with a sister; with a husband, yes; with a wife, yes; with a child, yes, but this sister of mine, a dark shadow robbing me of sunlight, is my one and only torment.

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The Identical Twin Sisters Who Retreated Into Their Own World". The New Yorker. 27 November 2000 . Retrieved 22 October 2021. Leah Mondesir Simmons and Eva-Arianna Baxter will portray the twins as young girls in The Silent Twins (Picture: PA)

a b Misstear, Rachael (31 October 2011). "Powerful Play about Silent Twins Will Get You Talking". Western Mail. Cardiff, Wales. Archived from the original on 24 April 2019. During her time at Broadmoor, Jennifer wrote in a diary entry: ‘I really aim to be alone. Yet, I am deceiving myself. Can I stand being alone? My heart does not beat so fast now. It only beats fast when J is around.’Tamara Lawrance [l] stars as Jennifer Gibbons and Letitia Wright stars as June Gibbons in director Agnieszka Smoczynska's The Silent Twins. Wherever he turned, he somehow failed to develop any sense of adventure and remained statically serene with the drink he called the “high life”. To him Pepsi Cola was like shallow water to a fish." It definitely messed with my head,” Letitia Wright told The Post of shooting her new movie “The Silent Twins,” opening in theaters Friday.

Strange, riveting... Thanks to Marjorie Wallace, thanks to the twins' incorrigible brilliance, we now have some idea of what it is like to stand in front of a dark mirror London Review of Books A poster for “The Silent Twins,” starring Tamara Lawrance (left) and Letitia Wright. The film tells the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons. Focus Features

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Leah Mondesir Simmons and Eva-Arianna Baxter as the young June and Jennifer. Photograph: Courtesy of Jakub Kijowski/Focus Features Kellam, Alexander M.P. (October 1993). "The silent twins" (PDF). Psychiatric Bulletin. 17 (10): 622–623. doi: 10.1192/pb.17.10.622. The doctors at the Caswell Clinic deduced that the medications given to the girls at Broadmoor must have provoked Jennifer’s immune system — though they also noted that June was given the same medications and was in perfect health upon arriving,” All That’s Interesting reported. Following a trial at Swansea Crown Court, June and Jennifer pleaded guilty to 16 counts of burglary, theft, and arson and were sentenced to indefinite detention at Broadmoor under the Mental Health Act. W książce dostałam dramat młodych dziewczyn, którym ani system edukacji, ani system ochrony zdrowia nie umiał pomóc.

a b c d e f g h Als, Hilton (27 November 2000). "The Identical Twin Sisters Who Retreated Into Their Own World". The New Yorker. Online as Als, Hilton (4 December 2000), "We Two Made One", The New Yorker. Retrieved 9 April 2020. I found the book so unusual because it wasn't as unusual as I thought it was going to be. The Sister spends much of their life living life famously unconventional. Living in their silent world, a Kaspar Hauser-esque existence. I thought it was going to be written from a weird interpretation of life. To me, it was like it was written by any teenager, I was surprised she knew 'the john' was slang for toilet. It's strangely competent about what emotions people have when they didn’t share their emotions with the outside world. Wallace, Marjorie (13 July 2003). "Marjorie Wallace: The tragedy of the Bijani sisters". The Guardian. London. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 9 April 2020. Harpin, Anna; Nicholson, Helen (7 October 2016). Performance and Participation: Practices, Audiences, Politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137393180 . Retrieved 30 January 2018– via Google Books.yeah i dont know, my thoughts around this book really just boil down to the fact that im really, really glad i could read it. some of it also was sad and interesting when looking at june and jennifer themselves, how parts of the book might mirror their experiences. i desperately want to read their unpublished works, they had some really great ideas.