The Adventure of Life by
15 Oct. 2023
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This dynamic, raw, breathtaking one-woman show transforms a lonely experience into a communal one, inviting audience members (both in-person and remote) to experience the playwright’s journey of infertility and IVF alongside her. The audience participation component is much more than a gimmick here: whether playing doomed sperm, the playwrights empathetic mother, or even sharing their own single-word reasons for wanting babies, the audience’s role in the storytelling is full of meaning and purpose. The ferocious honesty and vivid theatricality in Duerr’s script have created that rare autobiographical play in which the personal becomes universal. ”