Prerogatives: Contemporary Plays by Women by Kelly Jo Burke

So how do women deal with male violence, infertility, poverty, and mental illness in an age supposedly enlightened by technology and feminism? What happens when reproductive technologies, traditional notions of romantic love, teenage sexuality and friendship collide with modern expectations of self-fulfillment and equality? How do women navigate the ambiguous social fallout of a culture caught in a perpetual gender crisis?These are some of the questions brought to the stage in Prerogatives, a collection of five new plays by five of the next generation of women playwrights.

From the "romantic" tale of a princess raised by wolves and the surreal world of cybernetic motherhood, to a teenager and her friends navigating Toronto's street life and the collective voices of urban prostitution and abuse, Kelly Jo Burke, Kate Miles, Marie Clements, Vivienne Laxdal, and Toby Rodin give us alternative theatre: distinct, evocative, and raw.