She Was Born

Created by Nat & Veronica | a Rude Fusion production

Presented September 17 – 26, 2015 at The Off Center.

“Enchanting, then alarming, ultimately heartbreaking… the definition of unmissable.” – NOLA Defender 2014

ABOUT THE PLAY

There are very few creatures capable of Parthenogenesis.

In this rare and extraordinary form of asexual reproduction, mothers procreate without a sexual partner and give birth to exact genetic copies of themselves. This means that in an undisturbed environment, the life cycle of such an organism has the potential to become an infinite loop, repeating itself over and over for eternity. This is either a form of immortality or utter absurdity. Or both.

Meet SHE. SHE is a bug. SHE is alone. SHE is a parthenogenetically reproducing invertebrate. And SHE wants to know why she is here.

In Nat & Veronica’s She Was Born a group of only twenty audience members is invited into a giant paper pod to bear witness to the full life-cycle of this imaginary extraterrestrial insect. She Was Born explores motherhood, mortality and the idea that, biologically speaking, reproduction is the sole purpose of existence. It’s a story both completely alien and strangely familiar; after all, everything that ever lived was born.

ABOUT NAT & VERONICA

Nat & Veronica are a creative team dedicated to the creation of provocative and viscerally rich performance work with a strong focus on audience experience. Driven by a desire to find new and powerful potential in live performance their work combines visual spectacle, presence based performance and subtle humor to explore the problem of how to live. They have presented work at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans and Mount Tremper Arts and were artists in residence at LiveArts Bard. Currently, they split their time between New Orleans and New York’s Hudson Valley. For more information, visit http://www.natandveronica.org.

Rude Fusion is a program designed to develop deeper relationships with some of Austin’s finest theatre artists by offering material, financial and creative support for their new works, and by helping bring nationally acclaimed artists to town. Rude Fusion aims to help artists to take artistic risks, explore new ideas and keep their focus on artist pay and production values.