Pregnancy – COR

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Operas

Content warning: explicit language, sexual violence, sexual content, alcohol, blackout drinking

Hook Up tells the story of three friends who have made it to university, each with their own unique desires and inner conflicts. Mindy is just excited to keep her high school friend circle together and finally get some privacy with her boyfriend. T...

Composer: Chris Thornborrow

Librettist: Julie Tepperman

M’dea Undone

Content warning: death, murder, suicide, xenophobia

Jason, an army captain and now war-hero, is returning home after years of war and an uncertain future. His interpreter and lover M’dea and their son Chase accompany him to a new life in the West. Jason begins a political career, working alongside the President and Dahlia, the President’s bea...

Composer: John Harris

Librettist: Marjorie Chan

Still the Night

Content warning: antisemitism, genocide, Holocaust, infanticide, murder, Nazis, sexual violence, sex work, violence, war

Still the Night tells the fictional story of two Jewish Polish cousins, both named Bryna, who have escaped fr...

Composer: John Alcorn

Librettist: Theresa Tova

The Virgin Charlie

Charlie is performing in a show, and while backstage receives an unexpected visit from the Virgin Mary. Mary has news for Charlie: he is pregnant with the son of God. The little messiah has come to fulfill a prophecy - will armageddon strike the earth, or will forgiveness once again save it all?

Composer: William Rowson

Librettist: Taylor Graham

Two Sisters

Content warning: death, murder, drowning

Two sisters are outside by the river talking. One sister describes the boy she hopes to be with, and the other sister admits that she is pregnant with his baby. Jealousy is a deadly emotion.

Composer: Benton Roark

Librettist: Lila Palmer

The Defining Moment

Content warning: infidelity

An ambitious politician gleefully shares with his mistress the news that his party may soon be back in power. The mistress shares her own news: she is pregnant.

Composer: Jana Skarecky

Librettist: Norman Yeung

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Excerpts

Hook Up – Section 5, Scene 1: “Mindy’s Spiral”

Mindy tries to understand if she was raped at the party. She can't make herself contact anyone, but seeks information online; Cindy slips a morning after pill under the door.

M’dea Undone – Act 1, Scene 4

Jason and M'dea are expecting a baby. Citizens gossip about the couple.

The Virgin Charlie – “Step ever so softly now…” (aria)

Drag performer Charlie sings a number in the persona of the Virgin Mary.

The Virgin Charlie – “Charlie, please listen…” (aria)

The Virgin Mary explains to Charlie why he has been chosen to carry the child of God.

The Virgin Charlie – “Little one I aim to help you” (aria)

Charlie sings gently to his child, the Messiah, who he has been chosen to bear.

The Virgin Charlie – Scene 1

In his dressing room, drag performer Charlie puts on his Virgin Mary costume, witnessed by the real Virgin Mary inside his mirror.

The Virgin Charlie – Scene 2

Charlie performs the first number of his act: Mother Mary in the nativity scene, with the worries of a new mother carrying the son of god.

The Virgin Charlie – Scene 3

In his dressing room, Mother Mary explains to Charlie that he is pregnant with the son of god and offers him tips from her experience. Eventually, Charlie accepts that he will be a parent, and vows to protect the new messiah.

Two Sisters – Two Sisters

Two sisters are outside by the river talking. One sister describes the boy she hopes to be with, and the other sister admits that she is pregnant with his baby. Jealousy is a deadly emotion.