Lady T Recommends “Bloody Lullabies for Brave Women”

For this edition of “Lady T Recommends,” I’m not going to point you towards a Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign. I’m going to point you towards a play already in production, a play called Bloody Lullabies for Brave Women that will premiere in Brooklyn, New York to benefit the New York Abortion Access Fund.

I’ve mentioned several times that reproductive rights are very important to me as a political and personal cause. Bloody Lullabies for Brave Women is a play about abortion that will address this subject by focusing on “the process women go through when having an abortion instead of focusing on the decision to have one.” My friend Carey Purcell writes extensively about this play on her theatre site in an interview with the producer and writer of the play:

“Huba, who is from Canada, described the two-party political system of America and its approach to health care and reproductive rights as ‘boggling her mind.’ She expressed surprise that a person’s opinion on reproductive rights can be defining of their political stance, saying reproductive rights signify much more than whether one is conservative or liberal.

‘It’s connected to health care. It’s connected to environmental justice, immigration…That’s why I think in many ways this show opens the dialogue for many different discussions,” she said. ‘When it comes down to it, it’s really about health care and how we get the services we need in this country.’

As she watched and read about the debate over reproductive rights, Eraslan described the tipping point as being when “the left wing began playing in the right wing’s ballfield” and justifying the need for an abortion. Citing stories about upper middle class white women who were married and required an abortion for medical reasons, she described the dialogue surrounding ‘good’ abortions and ‘bad’ ones, with ‘good’ abortions depicted as being needed by a married woman who, for a medical reason, is forced to abort the child she wants to carry to term and ‘bad’ abortions portrayed as being needed by unmarried teenagers who are sexually promiscuous.”

I will be seeing this play on November 3rd. I have reviewed several Off-Off-Broadway plays on my blog, and almost all of them were free of charge – a courtesy that is customary for members of the press. I did not request press tickets for Bloody Lullabies for Brave Women and instead paid the ticket price, because all proceeds from this play benefit the New York Abortion Access Fund, an organization that benefits low-income women in need of an abortion.

If you live in the New York area, or know like-minded people in the New York area, please tell them about this play. It will run from November 1-November 5 at Magic Futurebox at 55 33rd St., 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Here is a link to the address to purchase tickets: http://www.magicfuturebox.com/bloody-lullabies-for-brave-wom/.