High Risk, Baby! & Other Reproductive Rights Recipes

7 Stages & PushPush Arts present High Risk Baby! an autobiofictional comedy about one woman’s outrageous reproductive journey to Ukraine and other wild and personal reproductive stories perspectives and prose. 

Shelby Hofer’s High Risk Baby! is a comedy about the child within the mom being a control freak and escaping infertility. Lenora is on a mission but her not-so-inner child is bursting with irreverent questions about DNA ADD quantum physics boners and babies — where they come from how they get here and mostly how she can get one. With hilarious and maddening advice from her sex-ed teacher the mysterious Dr. Mark and a bunch of ill-mannered “dolls” Lenora and her Honey board a train for a wild adventure that leads to some unexpected destinations. Directed by Ellen McQueen written and performed by Shelby Hofer.

This hour-long performance will be followed by a collection of short pieces in response to our bodies and the agency we have - or don’t have - in choice. Original short pieces include Hofer’s Four Embryos (a coda of sorts to her comedy High Risk Baby!) Theresa Davis’ What to Do When a Politician Tries to Fall into Your Vagina Feet First as well as a ‘bad romance’ between the USA and those with uteruses stories from a doula and the history of pregnancy tests. Featuring a fierce collective of performers including podcaster Lauren Vogelbaum doula Christy Robinson butoh and burlesque performer Frankie Mulinix (Vandellous) and Ruby Marx.

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