BIRTH is a critically acclaimed play  

Birth is a play based on over one hundred interviews Karen Brody conducted with mothers across America who gave birth between 2000-2004. It tells the true stories of 8 women painting a portrait of how low-risk, educated women are giving birth in America today.

"Writing Birth was a calling. It needed to be written so I wrote it; many days I would say it wrote itself. The eight women you meet in Birth are the most typical stories I heard across America. Everything they say was told to me by the mothers I interviewed. I hope their stories crack open a door for you to a world few of us really, truly know. Birth."
Karen Brody, playwright

Sonya Pailes: I have been following BIRTH reviews since the first year they were performed and then drove 2 and 1/2 hours to see BIRTH performed 2 X's in Wilmington, NC! My husband actually went once with one of our teen daughters and without me! I can say as I know my husband that the performance of BIRTH is well worth the drive. BIRTH is a very emotional yet educational, strengthening and empowering experience that connects all woman's experience's with being pregnant and giving birth. For men, BIRTH, helps them to see more clearly what woman while pregnant, giving birth and being postpartum, think, feel and experience.

(If anyone else has a review from seeing BIRTH they would like me to post feel free to email it to Organizer@boldatlanta.org)

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Performance Times coming soon!

If you would like your group to see a performance of BIRTH this year, please call or email us, we may be able to come to your location to do a performance or give your group a discount!  (Woman's church group, Mothers MOPs group, A Homeschool group, a Teen group, youth group)  

Performance's of Birth

September 13th, 2009 -   http://www.theashlandtheatre.com/1.html 

September 18th and 19th at 7:00 - Horizon school in Atalanta

Read about our Cast here 

See a preview of BIRTH 

In the play we meet Jillian, a stay-at-home mother of four children, who always sees the humor in life, especially in her mixed-bag of birth experiences; and Beth, a 35-year-old successful, high-powered computer systems manager from New Jersey who confidently planned a cesarean.

We are introduced to Vanessa, a buyer for a major department store who never had a doubt that she wanted an epidural. We hear from Janet, a lesbian in her 40s, who despite her feminist background wanted a medicalized birth, fearing the safety of herself and the baby; and Lisa, an African-American who felt intimidated and used by her midwives and the medical system after her birth.

We get to know Sandy, who thought birth was “just one day,” but found out that having an emergency c-section on that day changed her world. We hear Natalie's intimate story of physical betrayal; and Amanda, an athletic, confident stay-at-home mother who believed her birthing mantra--”My Body Rocks”--gave her the attitude she needed to give birth naturally in the hospital.

Moving between first-person monologues, some dialogue, and the voices these women heard on the day they gave birth, Birth confronts, what City Lights Theater Company has called, "The naked truth about childbirth in America."

Taken from the BOLDaction.org website

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Hailed The Vagina Monologues for birth by renowned womens health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup, Birth is a documentary-style play based on over one hundred interviews playwright Karen Brody conducted with mothers across America. It tells the true birth stories of eight women painting an intimate portrait of how low-risk, educated women are giving birth today.

Since 2006 the play been performed around the world as part of BOLD, a global movement using the Arts to inspire communities to improve childbirth choices and put mothers at the center of their birth experiences.