4 / 10
As a mother of two, whenever I learn that a family member or friend has just given birth, I often say “Welcome to the agony and ecstasy of parenthood.” And in many cases, it’s the mom who bears the brunt of it. If you want to experience what the worst of it looks like, you can get a crash course in Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood.
8 / 10
Maybe being a mom means, in part, always being behind, never quite catching up. Time becomes more soup than arrow, more palimpsest than progress. I often feel old and sore and busted and also simultaneously adolescent and clueless, a child recklessly, optimistically playing house. “I don’t know what I’m doing / I don’t know what will happen / But I know what I know,” sing the actors at the end of Meat Suit. All of them are mothers themselves — which, in this business, in this world, is its own small revolution. “I see you,” they sang, and whatever else I felt, I knew they meant it. I see them, too.
Read the reviews for MEAT SUIT, OR THE SHITSHOW OF MOTHERHOOD, playing now at the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center. See what the critics had to say in our review roundup!
First look production photos have been released for MEAT SUIT, OR THE SHITSHOW OF MOTHERHOOD at Signature Theatre. Written and directed by Aya Ogawa, the new play opens February 25 at the Irene Diamond Stage.
The complete cast has been revealed for Aya Ogawa’s MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood. The Off-Broadway premiere production is part of Second Stage Theater’s 47th Season.
