Show Run: August 8th - 17th, 2025
Show Description:
Leaving one’s parents, infertility and the search for truth, set against a background of xenophobia; 3000 years ago, but particularly relevant today. Set in ancient Mesopotamia, Go, My Child is an original account of the early lives of biblical Abraham and Sarah.
Credits
Eric B. Sirota is a composer/playwright, having written 5 full-length musicals. He studied musical composition at Brown University. He’s also a highly published research scientist with a PhD in Physics. His musical, Frankenstein, played Off-Broadway for 3 years, and was recently adapted as a movie musical which has already garnered many film festival awards, including 14 for Best Original Score. His musical Your Name on My Lips, an original love story, had two productions at Theater for the New City, where Sirota was a resident playwright. Go, My Child had staged readings at the Actor’s Temple Theatre. He wrote the music for A Day at the White House (with playwright Vin Morreale) which is slated for a 2025 production. In 2019, he was the recipient of a grant to attend the Chateau Orquevaux residency where he wrote A Good Day (music, memory, an old flame, an Alzheimer’s) which is currently in development, and was the winner of the Shawnee Playhouse’s Original Playwrights Award.
What They Say
- “If Ms. Ensler is the messiah heralding the second wave of feminism, and a lot of people think she is, it is partly because she’s a brilliant comedian…The audience…was overwhelmingly adoring.” —The New York Times.
- “The most exhilarating part is, no kidding, her extremely virtuosic way with a series of orgasmic moans…Ensler, a writer-performer with a good-natured but seriously evangelical mission about this body part, must be enjoying her success in getting the word out on such a legendarily unmentionable, mythologized and misunderstood fact of life…” —Newsday (NY).
- “Ensler breaks taboos by talking, talking and talking some more—stripping fear and shame from what she celebrates here. It makes for quite a party. Funny, outrageous, emotionally affecting, and occasionally angry…THE VAGINA MONOLGOUES confront words to demystify and disarm them. In so doing, Ensler disarms the audience too.” —Associated Press.
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