LETDOWN
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Letdown is an intimate, sharp-edged theatre work exploring the postpartum experience as it is rarely portrayed: raw, funny, frightening, and deeply human.
Drawing on letters written by Marea during late-night breastfeeding sessions, the work weaves together personal reflection, feminist history, and cultural myth to ask what happens when joy and terror arrive in the same body at the same time. Through stand-up–style comedy, surreal storytelling, and moments of creeping psychological horror, Letdown explores exhaustion, identity loss, bodily vulnerability, and the unspoken expectations placed on new mothers.
Laughter sits beside dread; tenderness collides with rage.
This is not a gentle birth story. It is a love letter, a warning, and a survival guide – written in milk, sweat, and dark humour – for anyone who has given birth, supported someone who has, or wondered why we do not talk about this part of life out loud.
Letdown is an intimate, sharp-edged theatre work exploring the postpartum experience as it is rarely portrayed: raw, funny, frightening, and deeply human.
Drawing on letters written by Marea during late-night breastfeeding sessions, the work weaves together personal reflection, feminist history, and cultural myth to ask what happens when joy and terror arrive in the same body at the same time. Through stand-up–style comedy, surreal storytelling, and moments of creeping psychological horror, Letdown explores exhaustion, identity loss, bodily vulnerability, and the unspoken expectations placed on new mothers.
Laughter sits beside dread; tenderness collides with rage.
This is not a gentle birth story. It is a love letter, a warning, and a survival guide – written in milk, sweat, and dark humour – for anyone who has given birth, supported someone who has, or wondered why we do not talk about this part of life out loud.
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Where is it happening?
New Athenaeum Theatre, 23 The Octagon, Dunedin Central, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand, Dunedin
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Host or PublisherTAHI Ōtepoti
