Review: Exercise Your Right to Choose to See "Misconceptions"
Misconceptions Written by Steve Wangh Directed by Jessica Burr Presented by Blessed Unrest at 122CC Theater 150 1st Avenue, 2nd floor, Manhattan, NYC May 11-June 3, 2023 L to R: HiIary Dennis and Cellia Pitt. Photo by Maria Baranova Reproductive choices are almost necessarily fraught, especially in a society in which, as scholar Lee Edelman argues, the figural Child functions as a fundamental part of heteronormative hegemony. Misconceptions , the new production from Blessed Unrest, examines one such choice, whether or not to continue to terminate a pregnancy, through a combination of a fictional narrative and the words of real-world women and media figures. From NYC-born playwright Steve Wangh, no stranger in his long career to politically charged topics, Misconceptions finds the humanity and even humor in terrain that, in the United States, has not only been politically weaponized over decades but has also recently seen the dangerous, sometimes literally fatal, obliteration of women...