Get "The Choice" To The Philly 2021 Fringe
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"The Choice" is a darkly comical new work of devised theatre from that asks the existential question ‘should we be having children?’
Three performers deliberate in real time the pros and cons of bringing a child into a misogynist, money-obsessed society on the brink of a climate catastrophe. Premiering at the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Choice takes the audience on the wild and absurd journey women go through when considering motherhood, laying bare the contradictory and territorial ways in which society views their wombs.
This is the debut work of inFlux: a theater collective - founded by Jacqueline Libby, Christine Octavia Shaw, and Jacinta Yelland.
We have a stellar director on this Project, Sarah Sanford, who directed the premiere of the Obie-Award Winning Underground Railroad Game. We have a designers to collaborate with, theater space to rent in Philadelphia, sets to build, costumes to purchase, and the countless hours we will be spending making this show a reality. We have been granted a residency at Bethany Arts Community in May and are under consideration from the Australian Arts Council for a grant, but there is still more money needed.
For the past year, inFLUX has been working on launching The Motherhood Project. The Motherhood Project, a decade-long series of performances that track the journey of three women (us!) as we face the choice to have children and the consequences of that decision. Every two years commencing in 2021 we — currently aged 25, 29 and 35 — will create a piece of devised theatre exploring our current relationship to motherhood. 'The Choice" is Chapter 1 of the decade long undertaking.
To this end, we are ambitiously working to raise $16,000 over the next few months by reaching out to hundreds of people, friends, and family who have supported us on our artistic journeys. We hope that you can help us make this show a reality and get this ambitious decade long project rolling!
Three performers deliberate in real time the pros and cons of bringing a child into a misogynist, money-obsessed society on the brink of a climate catastrophe. Premiering at the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Choice takes the audience on the wild and absurd journey women go through when considering motherhood, laying bare the contradictory and territorial ways in which society views their wombs.
This is the debut work of inFlux: a theater collective - founded by Jacqueline Libby, Christine Octavia Shaw, and Jacinta Yelland.
We have a stellar director on this Project, Sarah Sanford, who directed the premiere of the Obie-Award Winning Underground Railroad Game. We have a designers to collaborate with, theater space to rent in Philadelphia, sets to build, costumes to purchase, and the countless hours we will be spending making this show a reality. We have been granted a residency at Bethany Arts Community in May and are under consideration from the Australian Arts Council for a grant, but there is still more money needed.
For the past year, inFLUX has been working on launching The Motherhood Project. The Motherhood Project, a decade-long series of performances that track the journey of three women (us!) as we face the choice to have children and the consequences of that decision. Every two years commencing in 2021 we — currently aged 25, 29 and 35 — will create a piece of devised theatre exploring our current relationship to motherhood. 'The Choice" is Chapter 1 of the decade long undertaking.
To this end, we are ambitiously working to raise $16,000 over the next few months by reaching out to hundreds of people, friends, and family who have supported us on our artistic journeys. We hope that you can help us make this show a reality and get this ambitious decade long project rolling!
Co-organizers (3)
Jacqueline Libby
Organizer
Philadelphia, PA
Jacinta Yelland
Co-organizer
Christine Shaw
Co-organizer