1st Edition
No Mother, No Future Performing Motherhood and Reproductive Loss
Acknowledgements
Setting the Stage and Staging the Future: Baby Makers as Nation Makers
An Interview with Maev Beaty About Her Performance of Secret Life of a Mother
1. “A Child Would Die Here”: Motherhood as Nationhood in Marsh Hay and Still Stands the House
An Interview with Richard Plant on Directing the First Production of Marsh Hay
2. “Give Me Children, Or Else I Die”: The Limits of Radical Motherhood in The Handmaid’s Tale and its Television Adaptation
An Interview with Bruce Miller, the Showrunner of The Handmaid’s Tale Television Series
3. “We are Still Here”: The Indigenous Child and Futurity in Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
An Interview with Yvette Nolan About Directing Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
4. “The Future Stops Here”: Racial Reproductive Futurity in Harlem Duet and Beatrice Chancy
An Interview with Djanet Sears About Writing and Directing Harlem Duet
Afterword: “Resistance that’s Embodied”
Index
Biography
Kailin Wright is Associate professor of Canadian theatre and literature at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
