Water Child
Did you know that one in six couples struggle with fertility?
Familial fractures, pain, loss and the desperate need for a child are the bases of award winning play, Water Child, by Australian playwright, Emma Wood, and directed by Kris Weber, opening September.
Jeannie and Mark are dynamic, intelligent and capable. Their marriage is happy and balanced, their careers bloom. They are successful, confident, fulfilled. Or that’s how it appears. But unlike family and friends, who have effortlessly brought children into the world, they have not.
Jeannie’s 40th birthday, a night planned for celebration, leads them to an abyss which threatens to engulf them and all they have built together. Family and friends weigh in with well-meant but not always well worded advice – but what to say when no one knows why you can’t do what everyone else can? And when it’s too hard to talk about it at all? And how do you prevent two people who are mired in shame, sorrow and panic pushing you away?
One in six couples struggle with fertility. And yet the subject remains taboo. Award winning Australian play Water Child offers a rare glimpse into the myriad of difficulties faced by so many – and talked about by so few.
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