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AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003) Blood transfusion? Soap? Tomato Ketchup? Sweat? Earwax? Vitamin pills? Coffee? Organ donation? Alcohol? Airtravel? Fishfingers? Ready to eat salad in a bag? Sunscreen? Coral? Oxygen? Mascara? Condoms? Aspirin? Ice-cream? Boats? Oliveoil? IVF? Lemons in winter? The news? Polystyrene cups? Pubic Hair? Saffron? Melodrama? Families? Talcum powder? Sausages? Sofas? Nappies? Sex? 30 The above is abridged. I have been using a version of this list in workshops in schools and colleges where http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/anybody/furse.html (29 van 35)31-3-2005 18:21:46
AnyBody's Concerns 6(2003) multicultural classrooms include strong religious views from a range of cultures. The items provoke debates that mostly reveal how illogical and sentimental are our feelings about Nature and our place in it. I use this as a frame through which to explore bio-ethical issues in IVF. When people react with horror at the idea of medical meddling in what should be "natural" I ask whether they take medication for headaches. From there we can move into why our relationship to the embryo is so emotive, so deeply rooted in our religious or cultural conditioning. I deliberately leave questions open and refuse to resolve what cannot be resolved. Resolution is impossible anyway in a classroom in which, for example, Islam teaches some students to refute the science teacher's lessons in Big Bang theory. I have found that it helps that I tell them about my own experiences, that I have a child who cannot be unborn now, who is eight years old and who knows where she comes from and why. It tends to temper some of their more extreme reactions and make them stop and think. In my production it is my daughter who has the last word. An improvised moment between us at home one night during rehearsals produced a recording in which she quite unemotionally states her understanding of the IVF process that gave her life: "And then I was made." She concludes. Stage to black. House lights up on the audience. 31 Making babies should be a private affair. With IVF it can't be. As a woman, a writer and theatre maker I have embraced this lack of privacy and tried to make it work for http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de/anybody/furse.html (30 van 35)31-3-2005 18:21:46
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