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Writers - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). View the map of writers. Seven leading female playwrights in seven countries across the globe wrote new work for B! RTH, each exploring their country’s approach to childbirth. Click the pins on the map to find out more about each writer and the research informing their writing. If you would prefer, you can also switch to a list view.
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ORCHID (Kenya) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). There are so many reasons why a woman may suffer rom fistula, a hole in the wall of the birth canal, but there is no good reason why that woman can’t be treated. Award-winning writer, performer and producer Mῦmbi Kaigwa. Shares real voices of fistula sufferers through this deeply moving piece of verbatim theatre. Minar Anwar, Danielle Henry, Mῦmbi Kaigwa, Yandass Ndlovu, Abdul Salis, Nadia Emam, Perveen Hussain.
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SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). 8216;For your own sake, and for the sake of the baby to come you must be correctly corseted during the maternity period. I bought five. Keeping up with the rich white ladies like I don’t know what.’. It costs more to give birth in the USA than anywhere else on the planet, so why do they have the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world? Congo, Democratic Republic of the.
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CHOICES (UK) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). 8216;How come one minute I had everything you’re meant to have and now I can’t have the one thing you’re meant to have.’. We are spoilt for choice in the UK. The choice to have a child and the choice not to. Award-winning Irish playwright Stacey Gregg. Guides us through two deeply intimate stories about two women faced with the complex challenges that choice can provoke. Written and Performed by. Congo, Republic of the.
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Festival highlights - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). RTH plays are currently available to use as tools to raise awareness and encourage debate. Please fill in these details to access the plays. Congo, Democratic Republic of the. Congo, Republic of the. Palestine, State of. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Sao Tome and Principe. Virgin Islands, British. Virgin Islands, U.S. This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
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Q&Q (Syria) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). TRANSLATED BY CLEM NAYLOR (SYRIA). 8216;I look behind me and there’s nothing. And now I look in front of me and there’s nothing. A gap. I couldn’t have a baby with my husband. That’s my crime. And it’s because of war, not God.’. Why would a Syrian refugee want to bring a child into this world? Leading Syrian filmmaker and playwright Liwaa Yazji. Nadia Emam, Carla Henry, Perveen Hussian, Abdul Salis, Katie West.
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A SON SOON (China) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). A SON SOON (China). TRANSLATED BY JEREMY TIANG. 8216;I often feel that in China a woman’s womb doesn’t belong to her’. Two women visit a shamen to ask for guidance, one has the money to buy her way out of the government’s two child policy, the other doesn’t. Mina Anwar, Elizabeth Chan, Shobna Gulati. Congo, Democratic Republic of the. Congo, Republic of the. Palestine, State of. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Sao Tome and Principe.
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The Debate - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). During the inaugural B! RTH festival at the Royal Exchange Theatre a series of debates were held, based on the topics explored in the plays. These featured a range of industry experts from healthcare, academia, theatre and politics. The debates can be streamed in full below. WEDNESDAY 19 October: Control. 1 in 3 women in India have been sterilised and 91% of pregnant teens in China have abortions. FRIDAY 21 October: Choice.
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THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). TRANSLATED BY MATEUS CIUCCI. 8216;Within my family’s delicate history runs my motherland’s colossal past and present and today I will tell you, inspired by my own relatives, how the birth machine works in my country.’. What is behind Brazil’s caesarean epidemic? Congo, Democratic Republic of the. Congo, Republic of the. Palestine, State of. Saint Kitts and Nevis. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
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OUROBOROS (India) - BIRTH Debate
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A SON SOON (China). SO FAR AS A CENTURYS REACH (USA). THE BIRTH MACHINE (Brazil). 8216;I’m trying to understand if the disease and the doctor belong to different times.’. Mass sterilisation is common practice in poor rural areas of India. Women are often given incentives and doctors have targets to reach in unsanitary conditions. Ferocious young writer Swati Simha. Evokes a rich mystical world in this story of a doctor haunted by her role in India’s population control effort. Congo, Republic of the.
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