Doctor Voynich and Her Children

BY LEANNA KEYES
DIRECTED BY KARI WARFIELD

In the near future of a divided United States, Doctor Rue Voynich and her apprentice, Fade, travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions--long ago made illegal. Using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, Fade tries to help local youth Hannah obtain an abortion without her mother and the sheriff finding out and charging them for the attempted murder of an unborn person. This post-Dobbs play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.