MotherStruck

Opening Date: Dec 4, 2015

Closing Date: Jan 29, 2016

Running Time: 02:10

http://cultureproject.org/current/motherstruck/

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The Lynn Redgrave Theatre @ 45 Bleecker St

45 Bleecker St, New York City, NY 10012

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CULTURE PROJECT & ROSIE O'DONNELL present

MotherStruck sets forth Staceyann Chin’s personal journey to motherhood as a single woman, lesbian and activist who does not have health insurance or a “serious, stable financial set up,” but wants to have a child. Told through Chin’s uniquely personal and poetic lens, this solo show explores how the process changed her life and how she makes peace with what she learns from this profound experience.

Written & Performed by Staceyann Chin
Directed by Cynthia Nixon

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru THURSDAY @ 7:30 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY @ 4 PM
SUNDAY @ 5 PM

Off Broadway Play - Comedy Performance Art Play - Drama

Show Notes: 1 Intermission

Age Guidance: 13

Audience Advisory: Adult themes/language

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Chin's script is well structured, funny, and moving, her comic delivery exhibits veteran game, and her physicality spans the gamut from lithely sensual to unabashedly gymnastic. She and director Cynthia Nixon make full use of Kristen Robinson's abstractly designed circular set, not to mention the aisles, along which the performer doesn't hesitate to launch herself like the human-missile-on-a-mission that she is.

------Village Voice

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Staceyann Chin has one of the most captivating voices in New York, and we’ve gone too long without it. A slam poet by trade—she was a standout in 2002’s Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway—Chin shapes personal and political themes into smart and passionate outpourings of language, exploring her identity (multiracial, transnational, outspokenly queer) in cadences that evoke her childhood in Jamaica.

------TimeOut NY

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“Sometimes it feels like I’ve spent my entire life terrified of getting pregnant,” says Staceyann Chin at the top of her solo show “MotherStruck!” Born in Jamaica, Ms. Chin grew up in fear of becoming a “statistic” like her mother: young and pregnant, with no father to help support her child. But the subject of this engaging and often funny stage memoir, which opened on Monday at the Culture Project, is not, in fact, Ms. Chin’s valiant efforts to stave off motherhood, but her increasingly strong desire for, and her difficulty in, actually achieving it.

--------New York Times

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Chin's script is well structured, funny, and moving, her comic delivery exhibits veteran game, and her physicality spans the gamut from lithely sensual to unabashedly gymnastic. She and director Cynthia Nixon make full use of Kristen Robinson's abstractly designed circular set, not to mention the aisles, along which the performer doesn't hesitate to launch herself like the human-missile-on-a-mission that she is.

------Village Voice

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