bad eggs

Upcoming local production bad eggs explores women’s agency across mythologies

By:  Luke Faulks, Staff Writer Following a staged reading in 2019, SFU alum and playwright Jessica Hood is bringing her first full-length play, bad eggs, to your screens as an online film-theatre hybrid. The play tells the story of partners Persephone and Hades, who, after unsuccessfully trying to have a baby, visit a fertility doctor. The doctor, Eve, is also Persephone’s mother. After a panic attack, Persephone sets out to discover who she really is, beyond a wife and mother.  Initially intended to be a live theatre piece, the pandemic turned bad eggs into a virtual mixed media project. It’s…

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