MEAT SUIT, or the shitshow of motherhood

Weight gain. Amnesia. Insomnia. Body dysmorphia. Exhaustion. Isolation. Blood, vomit, shit. Loss of sex drive. And the greatest love of your life. Everyone talks about how wonderful and life-changing motherhood can be — but why is something viewed as so positive also so horribly painful, frustrating, debilitating and seemingly impossible?

Performed in bouffon style by 5 mothers, Meat Suit, or the shitshow of motherhood is a collage play composed of unapologetic vignettes and songs that captures the chaos, absurdity and heartbreak of motherhood. By centering mothers as a key to the birth/death cycle, Meat Suit reclaims their humanity and reinvents the paradigm of motherhood.

Meat Suit has been workshopped at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis (through the mcKnight Foundation’s National Commission and Residency Program), the Mercury Store and New Dramatists.

Costumes by Jian Jung
Bouffon advisor Sophie Amieva
Music by Leyna Marika Papach