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Dateline: 23rd March, 2003 Yerma's Eggs Yerma's Eggs is an innovative new performance exploring Assisted Reproduction Technologies and bio-ethics. It is conceived, written and directed by artistic director Anna Furse, who was artistic director of Paines Plough from 1990 to 1995. She has now set up her own company, Athleets of the Heart, and will present this new play at the Riverside Studios in London and the Explore-at-Bristol science centre. The mother of a child born from IVF when she was 42, Furse wrote the book Your Infertility Companion and now launches her new production company Athletes of the Heart with this new multi-layered work about life itself. Yerma's Eggs is about the relationships we make between our own bodies and technology. It is about how we see inside ourselves. It is about private hell, bewilderment and wonder. It is about the future. Yerma is the eponymous heroine of Lorca's poetic tragedy about a barren peasant girl. To Lorca, theatre "can use living examples to explain the eternal norms of the heart". Yerma's Eggs is about the heart. It is not science homework. It is not a play. It is a rite. The production includes a multi-cultural cast of six, film projections including state-of-the-art 4-D imaging techniques and an especially composed soundtrack by Sylvia Hallett. Yerma's Eggs is an art and science project funded by a Wellcome Trust Impact Award. It is co-hosted by the Riverside Studios arts centre in London and the Explore-at-Bristol science centre. Alongside the season of performances, a range of complementary events and activities aim to foster public awareness and debate around bio-ethical issues and to generate respect and understanding for the infertile. Events include: workshops in schools where IVF is taught as a value-free subject; workshops with nurses training to work in Assisted Conception Units; post-show discussions; a series of debates address Embryo Selection, Cloning and Who Has The Right to Reproduce? developed in partnership with PROGRESS Educational Trust to bring medical and ethical experts into dialogue with affected artists, writers and the audience. Wednesday 28 May to Saturday 7 June AT BRISTOL, Harbourside, Bristol, BS1 5DB (www.at-bristol.org.uk) |A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M|N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z| Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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