Undercurrents 2011. One Act Play Festival in Ottawa
My Pregnant Brother
written and performed by Johanna Nutter
Director and dramaturg: Jeremy Taylor
A Freestanding Productions production from Montreal.
Reviewed by Alvina Ruprecht
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Johanna Nutter tells us all about her brother who is in the midst of a real gender transformation. He used to be a girl but he is psychologically, emotionally and in all ways a man, thus the explanation between sex and gender is well drawn in this story. In any case, somewhere in the midst of this process of change, he becomes pregnant.
The situation is unusual to say the least but Johanna draws us gently into the intimacy of her personal world and tells us all about it in the most frank and unassuming way as she sketches out the geography of her space on the floor and walls of the theatre. There is something pedagogical about this…