Within The Glass
Dark Comedy
L-R Rick Roberts, Phillipa Domville, Nicola Correia-Damude, Paul Braunstein, Photo by Cylla Von Tiedemann
“I have over twenty ghosts haunting me. Defected, abnormal, incomplete embryos. Empty sacs now absorbed by my body.
And all they can tell us is that we have “unexplained infertility”.”
Two very different couples meet after a critical mistake at a fertility clinic: a fertilized egg has been implanted into the wrong woman. Over the course of an awkward and absurd evening, they fight to determine the uncertain future of their IVF child. The situation forces each of them to reassess their relationships, the depths of their desire to parent, and their hopes for the future.
Dark Comedy, 1 Act, 90 mins / CAST: 2 women, 2 men
Production History
Directed by Andrea Donaldson, Within the Glass was first produced by Tarragon Theatre
January 6 – February 14, 2016
The Curtain Club Theatre, November 2022
d2productions, March 2019
Troubadour Theatre September, 2018
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Reviews
“The gutsy playwright is striding headlong into the emotional minefield of fertility and childbirth.”
– Globe and Mail, Kelly Nestruck
“Parenthood, pregnancy, marriage, marital support and fertility technology are all mine-fields of emotions and playwright Anna Chatterton captures these beautifully in her emotion-charged play.”
-Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter
“Within the Glass is a spectacularly written theatrical tour-de-force that tugs at your heartstrings”
-Mooney on Theatre