Family Planning

TEN-MINUTE: When, on the morning after Trump's election, high school senior Angela tells her mother Bella about a pact she has made with three of her closest friends, Bella has to decide whether or not to adjust her moral compass to protect her daughter in the strange new world of Trump's America.
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Family Planning

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  • Nora Louise Syran:
    28 Jul. 2022
    Powerful! "Nitty gritty... in the face of horrors that surrounds us" for sure. Bravo John Minigan for a spectacular script and a super workshop/reading on Back Porch Theater with Miranda Jonte, Stephanie Cearley and Mercedes Marcial. Minigan has created two beautifully "flawed humans" and a generational flipflop in this family of faith faced with drastic shifts in the world today and no other recourse but love. Wonderful.
  • Cheryl Bear:
    23 Jul. 2020
    A difficult dilemma to be sure, but a powerful statement on the world we live in. When 1 in 6 women have been raped and birth control is under assault, it's natural to want to take every precaution while you still can. Well done.
  • Scott Sickles:
    9 Dec. 2018
    A gut-punch! John Minigan illuminates part of the fallout of the 2016 election that many men probably wouldn't think of; I know I didn't. This play is a perfect illustration of how the highest levels of government affect citizens in the most intimate and violent ways, and dares to follow-through on the bleak consequences of what is already a worst-case scenario. A must-read, especially for Trump-voting parents of women and girls. It should be produced everywhere.

Production History

  • Fringe
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    Ixion Theatre
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    2018
  • Fringe
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    Fish in Water, #metoo Plays, reading
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    2018
  • Professional
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    Fish in Water/#metoo Plays
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    2018