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a powerful new means of communicating the importance of birth issues
to the public."
Henci
Goer, author of The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
"This honest, painful, funny, compassionate,
courageous, and ultimately empowering play should bring it's powerful
message to communities across the country. These are stories that
women need to hear!"
Barbara Behrmann, author of The
Breastfeeding Café: Mothers
Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing
Ithaca, New
York
"I really loved the play.
You covered a wide range of experiences with knowledge, power, humanity,
humor and grace. I had thought it would be more ... judgmental, I
guess. I was delighted to find that it wasn't."
Denise Couture
Washington, DC
"Birth was
FANTASTIC! Someone sitting near me commented after the play that
it could be the next 'Vagina Monologues.'"
Ellen Daniels
Maryland
"Your play will touch many lives and create many ripples, changing
maternal and child health care."
Penny Lane RN, BA, IBCLC
Indiana
"Your creation brought tears to so many eyes, both from laughter
and sadness. You, and your crew, did a magnificent job! You are truly
inspiring."
Tina Overton
Maryland
"I can't tell you what a moving experience it was for me. I believe
the play should be shown in every community, on every campus, wherever
women gather."
Glenda Turner
Richmond, VA
"I am so proud of your achievement in researching, writing and
portraying women's birth experiences so clearly. Women are able to
relate to the characters, and finally understand how birth is a significant
life-changing experience... no matter where they are regarding birth...
that is the triumph of the play."
Michelle Kendell
Michigan
"I along with a couple other Bradley childbirth educators went
to see Birth. We would all love to have our students go see this play.
We all loved the play soooooo much, it was so powerful. You have truly
created a great play."
Valerie Davis
Virginia
"Thank you so much for writing Birth. I'm five months pregnant
with our first child. My husband and I saw the play and on the drive
home for the first time in my pregnancy we engaged in a much deeper
discussion about my birth options than ever before. It was wonderful
to hear the stories and the sounds of birth onstage. It got my husband
seeing, and now believing, that there are many ways to give birth.
We're talking about my birth experience in such a meaningful way now."
Tami Wendrow
Maryland
"It was so beautiful to see so many pregnant women in the audience.
I, personally, cried throughout the play - weeping especially during
the natural childbirth sounds. It took me back to my own sons' births
- the pain, the support, and the absolute joy."
Amy Outman
Takoma Park, Maryland
"I loved your play. I found it to be a very honest presentation
of what most American women want in birth, very balanced between the
epidural most want and the experiences of women who really want natural
childbirth. I think you have done a fantastic piece of work and hope
it gets performed around the country!!"
Robbie Davis-Floyd
Anthropologist and Author of BIRTH AS AN AMERICA
RIGHT OF PASSAGE
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