Complete casting has been announced for the Off-Broadway premiere of Aya Ogawa’s MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood. Beginning previews February 11, the piece will officially open February 25 on the Irene Diamond Stage at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

Written and directed by Ogawa, the work is a genre-defying theatrical carnival that plunges audiences into the chaos of being a mother. Performed by mothers for mothers, or those who love mothers, or simply those who have mothers, this play blends bouffon-inspired physicality, sharp satire, original songs, and total absurdity in order to a deeper theme: how every birth triggers the quiet deaths of the mother’s autonomy, sense of self, and personal desire, while questioning whether anything of the person she was survives.

The company will feature Marina Celander (Mermaid’s Howl), Cindy Cheung (Laowang, Bus Stop, The Antiquities), Robyn Kerr (The Great Society, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time), Maureen Sebastian (The Best We Could, Lonely, I’m Not), and Liz Wisan (Other Desert Cities, Gloria: A Life).

Meat Suit will feature choreography by Catherine Galasso, scenic and costume design by Jian Jung, lighting design by Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew and Christina F. Tang, sound design by Megumi Katayama, and original music and lyrics by Leyna Marika Papach. Casting is by Daniel Swee.