The Verdict
What Are Reviews for Aya Ogawa's Meat Suit Off-Broadway?
The play explores how every birth triggers quiet deaths in mothers' lives.
February 26, 2026 By Margaret Hall
Aya Ogawa’s MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood officially opened Off-Broadway February 25, and the reviews are rolling in! The production plays 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.
Read the reviews below.
New York Magazine/Vulture (Sara Holdren)*
New York Stage Review (Roma Torre)
New York Theatre Guide (Kyle Turner)
The New York Times (Laura Collins-Hughes)*
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Playbill will continue to update this list as reviews come in.
The company includes 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 features 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.
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