The Choice at HERE Arts Center

Pack a lunch for your kids while 10 months pregnant! Laugh with a middle-aged Australian mum! Panic about the future of the human race amidst climate catastrophe! Join us as we decide whether or not to have children Better yet, decide for us!Welcome to the womb where it happens: The Choice is an interactive work of theatre that unpacks the decision to have children, exposing the most intimate parts of a womans choice. Three women ask the audience to join them as they dive into it all: financial realities, personal relationships, societal and family pressure, a changing climate, and the morality of bringing new life into todays world. They lay it all bare for an audience, ultimately asking the existential question should we be having children? The Choice was created by inFLUX Theatre Collective: Jacqueline Libby, Christine Octavia Shaw, and Jacinta Yelland, with original direction by Sarah Sanford. The Choice won the award for Best Work of Theatre at the 2021 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

Authors

• Thomas C. Stowell