About the Project
Parent Discretion Advised is an intimate performance about love, fear, and the moment when personal responsibility collides with forces far larger than the self. Performed by a woman who has recently become a mother, the piece traces the aftershocks of pregnancy—how identity, morality, and instinct are permanently recalibrated once another life depends on your decisions. What begins as an intimate confession gradually opens into a wider interrogation of how we choose what is right when the ground beneath us no longer feels stable.
The show interrogates the gendered experience of care without control. Motherhood becomes a heightened state of vigilance: the body holds memory, autonomy remains conditional, and love is no longer aspirational but absolute. Every decision feels weighted, urgent, irreversible. The performer navigates competing impulses to protect, to survive, to stay, to leave under the cultural demand that love should clarify what is, in reality, impossibly complex.
Power dynamics pulse beneath the surface of the work. Voices of authority, creative, political, and intimate offer reassurance, instruction, and vision, often indistinguishable from pressure. Support becomes surveillance. Guidance slips into manipulation. The piece examines how ambition, fear, and desire frequently arrive disguised as care, particularly within systems that claim moral high ground.
At moments, the performer seems to be responding to something the audience cannot fully see.
At its core, Parent Discretion Advised asks urgent, contemporary questions: What do we owe the future? When does self-preservation become selfishness? How much of our morality is instinct, and how much is inherited, rehearsed, or imposed? Through dark humor, psychological tension, and direct address, the show exposes the fragile line between devotion and control, inviting the audience to sit inside uncertainty and to recognize themselves there.
Production Team
