About the Show

American Bard Theater Company presents the NYC premiere of this drama examining poverty, race, and the shocking truths about the 1960’s government-sponsored eugenics program.

The play's action happens largely at the Eugenics Office (local government office for forced sterilization) where we see the cat-and-mouse workings of the two women who work there, the applied pressure of the eugenics practice on four African-American woman, and two scenes “in the field” at the squalid shack of a pedophile father angling to get his daughter “fixed” so that he won’t have to deal with outcome of his actions, the offspring.

Critic Reviews (2)

"Smart and painful play...This intelligent and emotionally draining play sheds light on a dark treatment of people that's mostly hidden from history under sheets. The acting is very affecting particularly from the mother...The play is compelling in its direct depiction of the inhumane eugenics program sanctioned by legislation."
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"When you see a role written for a disabled character, you get excited as that should provide an opportunity for an Actor with a Disability to work. But when this role is played by an able bodied actor (which happens all too often), as it is in this show, you become angry, even though that actor in that role is clearly talented...So while I love the script and the actors in the show, the production fails to be all that it could be."
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Creative team

American Bard Theater Company

Producer

Marilynn Barner Anselmi