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Sound BreakAuthor: Lightning Rod Special
Sound Break is a series of stand-alone audio works from Philadelphia-based performance company Lightning Rod Special. Scrambling assumptions around lightning rod topics, LRS asks hard questions of themselves, their audiences, and the world at large. Through a collaborative writing process and an eye towards experimentation, each episode proposes an entirely new world with its own set of rules, mad delights, and intoxicating mysteries. Lightning Rod Special makes live performance from the ground up. For more information about Sound Break or Lightning Rod Special visit www.lightningrodspecial.com. Language: en Genres: Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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We Are Trying to Reach You
Episode 3
Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
Centered around actual voicemails left on Lead Artist Katie Gould’s phone while she was undergoing in vitro fertilization, We Are Trying to Reach You dives into the medical, financial, and emotional realities of one woman’s experience with infertility. Making the personal public, this piece casts its listener as a patient besieged by a litany of medical information, overwhelming advice, and conflicting emotions. Though silence and stigma around infertility abound, the CDC reports that “12% of women aged 15 to 44 years in the United States have difficulty getting pregnant or carrying a pregnancy to term.” With bracing intimacy, Gould lifts the veil of secrecy, inviting listeners into deeply personal moments of heartbreak, rage, compassion, and hope. Made in Lightning Rod Special’s signature explosive style, listeners are invited into the buzzing chaos one woman faces as she strives to start a family.
