←Recommendations of The Mission

This fast moving play explores the farce of our politics and the agency of women - particularly post-menopausal women. Dellagiarino has crafted a smart comedy about abortion access that allows you to laugh through the tears.

Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend is a comedy genius! In this political farce, she manages to provide plenty of laughs while still making clear the seriousness of the current assault on reproductive freedom. No easy feat. But with the aid of the most enjoyable senior trio since The Golden Girls, Feriend strikes gold of her own. Abortion initiatives may not be on the ballot in every US state, but make no mistake, the issue is definitely on the ballot. Hopefully voting will prove a better choice than the scheme cooked up here.

It takes incredible skill and insight to write a comedy that addresses such important and complex issues as reproduction freedom and the agency of older adults. And in ABORT: THE MISSION, Lisa Dellagiarino Feriend expertly navigates it all with a story that entertains as much as it educates. This farce is grounded in such real emotions and realities, making the contrast even more powerful throughout. This is a play not to be missed written by an author with incredible talent and empathy.

A big play that explores an enormous problem in America -- with huge laughs, outsize (but always plausible) characters, gigantic twists and turns, and, as it happens, a heart just as giant. The scale of the situations and the comedy stands in terrific counterpoint to just how dire America is for women who want control over their own bodies. Simply wonderful work.

When a great wrong is perpetrated by the powers that be, it is up to the artist to retaliate with the tools at their beck and call. Lisa Feriend has answers the call to arms with a brilliantly executed smack to the face of current policy makers who so deserve a deep reckoning. The importance of the subject matter is met head on with blistering humor. As Mark Twain said “Against the onslaught of laughter, nothing can stand.”

ABORT: THE MISSION. A comedy? Yes! You'll be laughing at the antics of the three "retirees" as the physical comedy is outrageously funny, but you'll be cringing at the same time at the lengths they are driven--fueled by lots of wine and an obligation to the women of the future--to go. Dellagiarino Feriend offers a profound examination of the current state of our democracy through comedy: the most powerful weapon of all. With it, she disarms us as she arms us --warriors of all generations-- to take up our struggle opposing this current sea of troubles. And end them.

ABORT: THE MISSION is a screwball caper comedy in the vein of A Fish Called Wanda which takes on draconian abortion laws, regressive social politics, and intergenerational tensions. This unlikely marriage of tone and content is exactly what makes this play so successful; the seriousness of the stakes believably drives Feriend’s characters to the increasingly absurd lengths that farce requires, and we’re laughing right up to the moment we stop and realize how unfunny the state of our democracy actually is.

A master-stroke of purpose-driven comedy with an urgent message about the fight for women’s lives.

This abortion farce will leave you laughing and squirming in your seat! The portrayals of the older women who are treated like they're invisible by society and are now taking power back is particularly exciting. Excited to see where this play goes!

Abort: The Mission is a very funny, wonderfully cringe-inducing play that artfully shows us the next shoe to drop in the abortion debate. A great premise, very well executed. Produce this play!

This is a very funny political farce, that asks a real question, how far are we willing to go to fight injustice. Linda, a radical in her 70s, wants the “fictional” governor of Florida to reverse his anti-abortion stance, and she decides the way to do it is to have her daughter Jen become pregnant by him, and then tape him asking her to get an abortion. A few problems with this, Jen is already married. Its an absurd premise but it raises real ethnical questions, as the mother uses her daughter almost as badly as the men outlawing abortion.