This is what passes for performing arts in higher education now? Sickening.
The College Fix reports:
Princeton students host musical titled ‘To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before’A group of Princeton University students performed a feminist musical over the weekend focused on abortion and “self-empowerment.”“To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before; A Love/Hate Letter to Storytelling” explores “the challenges of being heard and cultivating self-empowerment as a queer, cognitively-disabled (ADHD) woman in artistic spaces that traditionally center archaic, western, patriarchal narratives grounded in firm structures of storytelling and comedy,” according to a program description.The production, written by Princeton senior Jenni Lawson, debuted on Friday and Saturday in the school’s Lewis Center for the Arts.Lawson is a history and theatre major who is “[e]specially passionate about the production of New Works, musical comedy, and projects that deal with feminist, (dis)ability-oriented, and LGBTQ+/queer theme,” according to her LinkedIn.The title “twists a well-known saying to many writers, ‘sometimes you have to kill your babies,’” according to the thespians.“Questions of agency and womanhood have, of course, long plagued our society in more ways than just artistic expression,” the description reads. “Today, in the U.S., more than 19 million women live in contraceptive deserts, lacking access to affordable reproductive healthcare, and legislative proposals across many states threaten to exacerbate this disparity even further.”The description directs readers to a Planned Parenthood website to find local abortion facilities in New Jersey.The College Fix asked Lawson in an Instagram message how the show handles the topic of abortion, if the title implicitly refers to abortion and for any other comments on the story’s intended message but did not receive a response to two inquiries sent in the past two days.The Fix also asked cast members Jani Dumapit and Julia Elman for comment twice via Instagram in the past two days but did not receive a response.Dumapit’s senior thesis involves “researching musical theatre history and how the stage has been used as a representation for real world issues, particularly regarding psychiatry,” according to her LinkedIn.
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