My Body No Choice will run for just 18 performances in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle, from October 20 through November 6, in the run-up to the mid-term elections. I was thrilled when the writers generously agreed to forgo their royalties during this time, so that the production is as accessible as possible."Ī list of current participants in the nationwide readings of My Body No Choice is below, as is the full cast and creative team for the Arena Stage production. "So with the support of the writers, we started reaching out to theaters and universities across America, asking if they'd like to host their own readings of the play between October 21 and November 6. "As we worked on the production, I kept wondering what more we could do to help women tell their stories," continued Smith. Far too often, these are the stories women are afraid and ashamed to share, and with the Supreme Court's recent decision, it's time for women to lose that fear. These include the choice to have (or not have) an abortion, the right to choose one's body size, and the right to make a decision around when to end one's life. "I hope that by experiencing the artists bringing these powerful monologues around choice to full fruition, the audience will be empowered to talk about their own difficult choices. We all need to raise our consciousness together. "It's my final production as Arena's Artistic Director, and setting it in a consciousness-raising space like women had in living rooms in the '70s felt like the absolute right action to take. "I knew I had to make a theater piece in response to this horrifying decision," said Smith. My Body No Choice is Smith's response to the overturning of Roe v. Several local theater luminaries comprise the cast and creative team for the Arena Stage production, also announced today. Twenty (20) theaters and universities from across the United States, from Michigan to Montana, and from Hawai'i to New York, will stage their own readings of the eight, female-authored monologues around bodily autonomy and choice commissioned by the storied Washington, D.C., theater.
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