Princeton students perform in musical titled: To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before
Jeremiah Poff
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A Princeton undergraduate student is directing and starring in a pro-abortion musical she wrote that explores feminist themes of the patriarchy while using a literary saying that evokes abortion.
Jenni Lawson, a senior at Princeton, is directing and starring in a production of To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before: A Love/Hate Letter to Storytelling, a play she wrote that “aims to investigate the challenges of being heard and cultivating self-empowerment as a queer, cognitively-disabled (ADHD) woman in artistic spaces.”
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“To All the Babies I’ve Killed Before: A Love/Hate Letter to Storytelling is a zany, metatheatrical musical comedy extravaganza by Princeton senior Jenni Lawson that explores conventional theater-writing and theater-making processes through an intersectional lens of femininity, queerness, and neurodivergence, while drawing upon influences from sketch comedy, stand-up, improv, and more,” the website says.
The musical will have a three-day run at Princeton’s Drapkin Studio beginning Friday. The show description warns that the show contains “vehicular violence, body dysmorphia and eating disorders, mentions of physical assault and abortion, and gun violence.”
“Questions of agency and womanhood have, of course, long plagued our society in more ways than just artistic expression,” the show’s description reads. “Today, in the U.S., more than 19 million women live in contraceptive deserts, lacking access to affordable reproductive healthcare, and legislative proposals across many states threaten to exacerbate this disparity even further.”
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According to the show’s description, the phrase “all the babies I’ve killed” plays on the saying “sometimes you have to kill your babies” (or darlings), which refers to eliminating words, phrases, and storylines from literary works that are useless to the overall story.
Despite the reference to the literary saying, Lawson includes multiple references to abortion in her program description. The website for the show’s production also links to the website of Planned Parenthood and urges people to donate to the organization.