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Industry News The Miranda Family Fund Commissions Everything You Need to Know About Abortion in One Hour or Less

The play from The Wish Collective is now available to download, perform, stage, and adapt for free.

Lin-Manuel Miranda's Miranda Family Fund has commissioned Everything You Need to Know About Abortion in One Hour or Less, a new play by The Wish Collective—Justice Hehir, Dena Igusti, Phanésia Pharel, Nia Akilah Robinson, and Julia Specht. 

The new play is now available for the public to download, perform, stage, and adapt for free without any additional licensing thanks to the Fund's contribution. Click here to download the play.

Set in an Oklahoma high school in December 2023, Everything You Need to Know About Abortion in One Hour or Less tells the story of an educator ready to retire. On her last day, she decides to educate high school students on medicated abortions, crisis pregnancy centers, and how to be a caring companion to someone having an abortion. Acknowledging she's in a ban state, with consent from her students, she risks it all by providing information and links like this one

“Reproductive freedom, access to reproductive healthcare, and the freedom to access information about reproductive healthcare is a fundamental human right and needs to be protected,” Dr. Luz Towns-Miranda and Luis A. Miranda, Jr. said in a joint statement. “It is with tremendous pride that our family stands in support of the great work of The Wish Collective, and that this important play be available for all to read, perform, stage, or adapt for free.”

“Justice Hehir brought us together five years ago because our access to bodily autonomy continues to be in conversation, there are rights which have been lost, and we are at risk for a future that feels more frightening than it does hopeful,” added Robinson. “The Wish Collectives' theatre and art attempts to be a landing place for reckoning with our rage about the loss of Roe v. Wade, an ever-evolving reflection of our present circumstances in this country, and a hope for the world to change. Dena, Julia, Phanésia, Justice, and I come from different places globally, our bodies show up in the world differently, but we've found a way to collaborate because of a common belief. Our bodies, our choice. This is the second play we've written with the full support of the Miranda Family Fund, and since 2020 our work has been performed across the country. Our first play, The Wish, can be described as a rallying cry. We encourage those who read the first play to take it apart, edit it, use it at protests (parts of the play were performed inside and in front of the Texas State Capitol). Our second play is our offering for the generations that come after us, it's for educators, theatres, and students who want to learn about abortion.”

The Wish Collective is a grassroots initiative developing inventive pro-choice theatre, protecting the reproductive rights of theatremakers, and amplifying the voices of theatremakers in states where abortion is banned. 

Visit TheWishCollective.org

 
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