About the Project
Sometimes comedic inspiration comes from dark places. Mary-Jo Dionne, writer and performer of “Glowing: A Reproduction Production” experienced her last episode of melanoma during an already-horrific pregnancy, ultimately serving as the subject matter of her one-woman show. The 50-minute performance follows a 40-year-old woman, born without a biological clock, who after countless hurdles eventually becomes pregnant – resulting in an experience that is anything but a glowing one. She thinks it can’t get any worse than all-day “morning” sickness, but she’s wrong. At 7-months-pregnant, while other women are deciding on paint colours for the nursery, a cancer diagnosis leaves her deciding whether or not she should go through with a potentially life-saving amputation. All told, this poignant one-woman comedic journey aims to de-bunk the myth that all pregnant women glow.
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