"When Claudia gets pregnant she has a very clear plan for how she wants to give birth. Her pre-natal anxieties inspire her father to create a device for safer deliveries and Claudia realizes that nothing ever goes quite as expected. Includes a conversation with playwright Chiara Atik and Dr. Judith Reichman, an OB/GYN and longtime medical contributor to The Today Show.
Bump is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series of science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in October 2020.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing DIrector: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Lucy DeVito as Mary, Apple, Receptionist
Anna Lyse Erikson as Lemon, Third Woman
Alma Martinez as Maria
Anna Mathias as Midwife, Avocado, Doula
Ana Ortiz as Claudia
Moira Quirk as Walnut, Mama, Second Woman
Herbert Sigüenza as Luis
André Sogliuzzo as YouTube Guy
Devon Sorvari as Grapefruit, Waiting Mother
Inger Tudor as Narrator, Plum, Different Mama
Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineer, Editor and Sound Designer: Neil Wogensen
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner
Mixed by Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood"
"An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn. And about daring ourselves to be brave and embracing being scared.
These stories are tied together by relationships: making them, losing them, how we behave in their absence. How we thrive when we’re far from home and falling in and out of love in all of the world’s beautiful places."
