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The Turnaway Play: A Staged Reading
Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
600 S. Gregory St.
Urbana, Illinois 61801
(217) 333-2360
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Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice presents
a staged reading of The Turnaway Play,
in partnership with The Station Theatre
and the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures,
directed by Christiana Molldrem Harkulich.
This program is sponsored in part by
an Urbana Arts & Culture Grant.
Join us in person at Spurlock Museum or watch the livestream online.
The Turnaway Play is about what really happens
when people are denied access to abortion.
An urgent issue comes to life onstage through humor,
drama, and audience participation.
Each performance will be followed by a
talk-back discussion with the actors and director,
led by Dr. Jeannie Ludlow,
Director of Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies at
Eastern Illinois University.
The Turnaway Play is inspired and informed by the groundbreaking
Turnaway Study, conducted by Dr. Diana Greene Foster,
a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and researcher at
the University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Foster followed 1,000 women from across the country for five years
and obtained the first scientific results on the consequences people face
when either having or being denied an abortion.
Characters in the play are based on Turnaway Study subjects
and members of the research team.
The play uses the words and experiences
of these real people to bust myths
and reduce abortion stigma.
Drama, humor, and audience participation
make it an engaging and thought-provoking theatrical event.
Cosponor: Urbana-Champaign Reproductive Justice