Divorce Tales: Ask Your Parents How It All Went Down And Contribute Your Story Here.
(Comic by Nikole Beckwith)
Clockwise: Jenny Morris, Matthew Maher, Caitlin Miller, Robbie Collier Sublett (Courtesy of the Artist)
We’re four theater artists, all members of The Civilians – a theater company that creates shows from investigations into real life. Our latest play, YOU BETTER SIT DOWN: Tales From My Parents' Divorce, is created from interviews we did with our own parents.
We asked them questions about why they split up and they told us all the details.
This our parents, played by us. Telling it like it was.
Watch our LIVE performance at WNYC's Greene Space here!
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Tales From My Parents' Divorce:
If you were born anytime in the 70s or 80s, there’s a decent chance your parents are divorced too.
Was there an item your parents fought over? How did they tell you they were getting a divorce? What was it like spending one week at mom's and one week at ...
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Zelina Blagden, NYC:
Dad did this owl sculpture in the 1960's. A funny detail: the eyes came from a leopard skin rug that was in my great-grandparents' cabin in the Adirondacks. Mom claimed she didn't know where the owl was and never gave it back to my father until ...
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We’re four theater artists, all members of The Civilians – a theater company that creates shows from investigations into real life. That’s one thing we have in common.
The other thing is that all of our parents are divorced.
