Feels Like a Maternity
by Scottish Rite Theater

Mar. 13 - Apr. 01, 2021

Feels Like a Maternity
A workshopped reading of a new play by Gricelda Silva

Gricelda Silva (via SRT)Playwright Gricelda Silva wrote the script on her phone, one-handed, in the wee hours of many nights of breastfeeding her infant. Interwoven in the tales of three women are the fear, loneliness, disappointment, and sometimes despair in new motherhood that no one wants to talk about – the doubt and pain too often buried under societal expectation.

Silva has teamed up with director Leslie Guerrero Collins and a talented team of actors to workshop her play about the struggle for survival women often experience behind those idyllic images of giggling infants and cheery nurseries.

Cast: Cassandra Reveles, Jesús Valles, Zac Carr, Eva McQuade, Hollie Baker, Olivia Jimenez, Christa French, Leslie Guerrero Collins, Susan Gayle Todd
Directed by Leslie Guerrero Collins

Intended for mature audiences only.
Contains themes of self-harm/suicide/postpartum depression.

 

(via SRT, licensed under CC BY 2.0) 

 

 

Art credit: “Maternity” (1935) / painting by José de Almada Negreiros (1893-1970) / photo by pedrosimoes7 is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Feels Like a Maternity
by Gricelda Silva
Scottish Rite Theater

March 13 - April 01, 2021
Streaming
via internet
Everywhere, TX, 78700

Join us for Austin Scottish Rite Theater's workshopped reading of Gricelda Silva's new play! Free premiere Saturday, March 13 at 8:00pm with talk-back facilitated by 

Madge Darlington

Directed by Leslie Guerrero Collins

with actors Olivia Jimenez, Zac Carr, Jesús Valles, Eva McQuade, Cassie Reveles, Christa French,Hollie Baker--and yours truly in the role of a grandpa! 
(Streaming thereafter for a fee March 14 - April 1)
CONTENT ALERT: includes themes of post-partum depression and suicide
Registration and info: https://scottishritetheater.org/show/maternity/