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A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits
by C. Denby Swanson
February 11 –March 6, Thursdays - Saturdays at 8 p.m.
Directed by Jenny Larson, set designs and puppetry by Connor Hopkins, original music by Graham Reynolds. Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 E Manor Rd $15 admission For reservations and more information, call (512) 474- SVT6 or visit www.SalvageVanguard.org.
In England in 1725, a young woman named Mary Toft was several weeks pregnant with her third child, and the family was hungry. She chased rabbits through her fields, hoping catch one and cook it. But the rabbit always got away.
Soon after, she went into labor - and miscarried a rabbit. During the course of the next four months, Toft claimed to give birth 18 times to rabbits, or pieces of rabbits. Two of the three prominent physicians who examined Mary Toft believed that her rabbit pregnancy was scientifically possible.
A Brief Narrative of an Extraordinary Birth of Rabbits retells the story, where characters live on the edge of the imagined and the real. Mare, a surrogate for her infertile sister Kitty, has just given birth to her first…rabbit. And there will be 24 additional rabbit births. The lingering questions are "how" and "by whom"?
The show also includes video design by Lee Webster, light designs by Megan Rielly, sound design by Buzz Moran, and costumes by Jessica Gilzow. The cast includes Robin Grace Thompson, Nitra Gutierrez, Halena Kays, Shaun Patrick Tubbs, Connor Hopkins, and Matt Hislope - with Josh Meyer as "The Stork."
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