By Lunasea Theatre
$10 in advance and $15 at the door
If cost is a barrier, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you.
Childcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance.
ASL interpretation will be available during the May 10 Reception and Q&A
Am I Ovary-Acting? is a work by LunaSea Theatre about reproductive justice that examines commonly held beliefs about health and medical care for those with ovaries/uteruses/vaginas. Through comedy, storytelling, rage and disbelief we explore reproductive health and justice through relevant objects. At Mayworks, our focus will be the history, uses and misuses of the speculum. This 50 minute show is part ted-talk, part conversation, part storytelling. When it comes to health and reproductive justice the political and social landscape right now is rife with misinformation, disinformation and half-truths. We are here to press against that tide with nuanced conversation and evidence-based information in a fun, curious, theatrical way.
Credits:
Created and performed by Kathleen Dorian and Ailsa Galbreath
Research by Claire Horn
KATHLEEN DORIAN (she/her) is a creator/actor based in Dartmouth, NS (Punamu’kwati’jk). She is co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre, Nova Scotia’s foremost feminist theatre company (most recently producing SoloFest, a festival of new one-act works), and one quarter of the clown-troupe-turned-accidental-theatre-company Tea Time Creation Co. (First Date/Last Date, Gina Is Dead, Romeo & Juliet: A Drink Along, Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream). She has had the great pleasure of working with extremely talented Halifax peers as an actor (How Quickly Things Change – xo secret theatre; This is Nowhere, How Small How Far Away – Zuppa Theatre; The Very Hungry Caterpillar, My Favourite Story Book/Guess How Much I Love You, The Rainbow Fish – Mermaid Theatre) as well as an assistant director and director (Some Blow Flutes – HomeFirst Theatre, Booby Trap – Rooks Field Green). Kathleen is interested in puppetry, story through movement and magic, and meeting her audience in the space between performance and reality.
AILSA GALBREATH (she/her) is a theatre artist based in Punamu’kwati’jk (Dartmouth). Ailsa is an actor, creator, and producer. She is passionate about new work. Recently, Ailsa performed as a puppeteer in Gale Force’s ambitious outdoor creation Icarus: Falling of Birds. Ailsa played Flute in Neptune Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream last season. She performed in Two Planks and a Passion’s season of The Mountain and the Valley and Chased by the Bear. She has worked with Ship’s Company Theatre, Gale Force Theatre, PARC, secret theatre, EFT, HomeFirst, Zuppa Theatre, LunaSea Theatre Co, Halifax Theatre for Young People and Villain’s Theatre. Ailsa is 1/4th of Tea Time Creation Co, a clown troupe who seek to subvert the status quo with wacky fun, through the creation of new work and reinvention of classics. Ailsa is a certified teacher of the Interactive Teaching Method of the Alexander Technique. She is the Co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company whose work centres the voices of women, non-binary, and underrepresented genders.
CLAIRE HORN is a writer and researcher with a PhD in law (University of London) and an MA in gender and legal studies (NYU). From 2021-2024, she was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Justice Institute, and she has held research fellowships with the Modern Law Review and the Wellcome Trust. She has researched and taught in law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and technologies for six years and has published with a variety of nonfiction venues as well as academic journals including Body & Society, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, The Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Law Review and Feminist Legal Studies. Her first book, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth, was published in 2023 and was longlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
