Heartbeat Opera Spring Festival 2024: The Extinctionist
Friday, April 5, 2024 @ 7:00pm – 8:15pm (EDT)
Baruch Performing Arts Center,
Manhattan,
NY,
United States
Pay what you can, from $10
Daniel Schlosberg
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The Extinctionist
(world premiere)
A young couple is trying to have a baby. Ice caps are melting. Forests are burning. In the face of environmental collapse, one woman wonders if the best way to protect a future child is not to have one at all. It all goes according to plan until she discovers she has little choice in the matter. In this dark comedy, a woman's body becomes a battleground of political anguish, conflicting desire, and existential dread.
Runs April 3-14; Spring Festival 2024 runs April 2-14.