NEW PLAY ALERT:
DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
About Leanna:
Leanna Keyes is a playwright, producer, and designer based in Memphis. Previously she worked with a variety of San Francisco Bay Area organizations devoted to the development of new and reimagined plays. Her past collaborators include The Cutting Ball Theater, Playwrights Foundation, Performance Design Acronym, and Dragon Productions Theatre Company.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Rhodes College, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. This year, her work is featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
She produced her one-act plays Legal-Tender Loving Care and The Kilogram Play at Stanford University in the fall of 2013. Her full-length “rom-com-dram” God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship followed with a full workshop production in the spring of 2014.
Doctor Voynich and Her Children was produced at Stanford University in May 2018 and workshopped at Rhodes College in April 2018.
DOCTOR VOYNICH AND HER CHILDREN
About Leanna:
Leanna Keyes is a playwright, producer, and designer based in Memphis. Previously she worked with a variety of San Francisco Bay Area organizations devoted to the development of new and reimagined plays. Her past collaborators include The Cutting Ball Theater, Playwrights Foundation, Performance Design Acronym, and Dragon Productions Theatre Company.
Her plays have been studied at universities around the country, including Stanford University, Rhodes College, the University of Kansas, and Western Carolina University. This year, her work is featured at Carnegie Mellon in the curriculum of “American Women Playwrights of the 20th and 21st Centuries.”
She produced her one-act plays Legal-Tender Loving Care and The Kilogram Play at Stanford University in the fall of 2013. Her full-length “rom-com-dram” God Herself Could Not Sink This Ship followed with a full workshop production in the spring of 2014.
Doctor Voynich and Her Children was produced at Stanford University in May 2018 and workshopped at Rhodes College in April 2018.
-I have a new play! Doctor Voynich and Her Children is a full-length drama set in the post-Roe v. Wade American Heartland of the 2060s. Read more:
Doctor Rue Voynich and her apprentice Fade travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions, which have been illegal since “the Pence days.” Fade tries to help local youth Hannah complete her abortion, using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, before her mother and the sheriff can nail them for the “attempted murder of an unborn person.”
This play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.
Doctor Rue Voynich and her apprentice Fade travel the American Heartland dispensing herbal medications. Covertly, they perform abortions, which have been illegal since “the Pence days.” Fade tries to help local youth Hannah complete her abortion, using knowledge from an ancient manuscript, before her mother and the sheriff can nail them for the “attempted murder of an unborn person.”
This play about mothers and daughters is poetic, sexy, vulgar, queer, and a little too real.