What I liked
Heather is a confident, smart, funny performer and writer. The show is fast-paced and has an easy-to-follow thread of her character’s trials and tribulations with finding out that getting pregnant isn’t as easy as she assumed it would be. I enjoyed the arc of the story, and while it has poignant, tender, raw moments, it never slips into melodrama. Heather finds a lot of fun characters to embody along the way which helps to bring the vignettes to life.
What I didn't like
If anything, I’d love to see the show feel even more personal by allowing the story to be specifically Heather’s, and I’d love the show to spend more time after the current ending to explore the ambivalence her character feels about motherhood, pregnancy, and the way this impacts women. I think there are some meaty themes that only find footing at the very end and so there’s room to dig into those perhaps in the show’s next iteration.
My overall impression
Highly-recommended! I loved Heather’s first solo show, UNEMPLOYED. FINALLY. and I was excited to fall in love with this show too. And I did. Heather is a wonderful, endearing performer and she bravely puts herself in the middle of a complicated and fairly personal examination of what it means to be “fertile” — or not — in our society. This is a funny, sincere, heart-warming exploration of one woman’s attempts to navigate trying to get pregnant, friends who are/have been/don’t want to be and all of the opinions, advice and medical treatments she encounters in-between. This is a timely topic as so many women are facing similar struggles and trying to figure out whether they REALLY want to have children, or they’ve just been indoctrinated into believing they should to live a full life.