Breed or Bust

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May 27, 2022

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BREED OR BUST
A woman’s right to make her own damn mistakes
Comes to the Hollywood Fringe Festival
from the Bay Area

May 20, 2022, Hollywood, CA. To breed or not to breed: that is the question award winning solo show artist Joyful Raven wrestles with in her new solo show. Blending standup and storytelling, Raven recounts her difficult reproductive “choices” and contends with her primal baby making instincts. Should she surrender to the role of weird aunty OR start a GoFundMe to freeze her geriatric eggs? With her breeding window rapidly shrinking, she reflects on her abortions, the father of her abortions and the complexity of modern womanhood. A very timely dark comedy with deep heart. Come for the laughs and stay for the sex education…in case you forgot how babies were made. Opens June 3rd at 8:00 pm at the Zephyr Theatre – 7456 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 9004

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Abortion. Sexuality. Addiction. Body image. Dozens of Hollywood Fringe Festival shows cover edgy topics. Fringe creators are eager to put it all out there.

Whether a personal story or a biography, fact or fiction, the truth usually shines through at Fringe. It might make you cringe or cry, but it will likely also make you laugh, since Fringers have a great collective sense of humor.

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Breed or Bust

You don’t (typically) have pregnancy without sex, and sometimes you don’t have sex without pregnancy. When there’s unhappiness about a mismatch between the two, it can be wrenching, as the solo show Breed or Bust shows. Writer/performer Joyful Raven doesn’t hold back when sharing her tales of reprod

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A NoHo Arts theatre review of “Breed or Bust,” written and performed by Joyful Raven, directed and developed by Joel Weisman, produced by Jessica Lynn Johnson at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival.

“Breed or Bust” is a perfect Hollywood Fringe play funny, clever, opinionated, purposeful, strategically graphic and absolutely brilliant.

Joyful Raven takes us on a tour of her life, with the focus on her reproductive life, or lack thereof. She navigates the personal choices and accidents that take all of us to the not-so-great position of what to do when the pee stick turns blue…

Most of us have been there, these days it’s become political, of course, but then what hasn’t? So, this show and any kind of conversation like it is even more vital. But Raven’s story isn’t political or contrived to fit our own collective and terrible present narrative, it is her own. Raven’s story, told in her gorgeous, warmly funny, significantly frank and beautiful way is such an important one. Es

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