About the Project
We perform Plath’s “A Poem for Three Voices”. It consists of three intertwining interior monologues, contextualized by a dramatic setting: “A Maternity Ward and round about.” The three women of the title are patients, and each describes a different experience.
The First Voice is a married woman who gives birth and takes her baby home during the course of the poem. The Second, a secretary, has a miscarriage, not her first, and the Third, a college student, gives birth after an unwanted pregnancy, and gives the baby up for adoption.
Afterwards the audience is engaged in a discussion of the myth of motherhood from Medea to Casey Anthony .
Production Team
