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Welcome to Your New Life single work   drama  
Adaptation of Welcome to Your New Life Anna Goldsworthy , 2013 single work autobiography
Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Welcome to Your New Life
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'When Anna, a pianist and perfectionist, falls pregnant with her first child, her excitement is tempered by the daunting journey ahead. She shares the dizzying wonder and crippling anxiety that comes with creating new life. Should she indulge her craving for sausage after sixteen years of not eating meat? Will her birth plan involve Enya or hypnosis, or neither? And just how worried should she be about her baby falling into a composting toilet?

'Anna Goldsworthy has turned her captivating memoir into a captivating play which combines warmth, humour and surprise to reveal the love that binds families together.

'This world premiere production evokes the shock of plunging into a life-changing adventure and the kicking required to return to the surface.

'With live songs and a soon-to-be-announced star of the stage in the role of Anna, this charming but delightfully affecting and hilarious account of pregnancy and early motherhood melds Up the Duff candour with Lena Dunham-like wit, and will have you laughing, sighing and crying in recognition.'

Source: State Theatre Company of South Australia.

Production Details

  • Presented by State Theatre Company of South Australia, Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, 10 November - 25 November 2023.

    Director: Shannon Rush.

    Lighting Designer: Gavin Norris.

    Sound Designer: Andrew Howard.

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Works about this Work

Play School Meets Ikea : New Australian Play Welcome to Your New Life Hilariously Captures New Motherhood Catherine Campbell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 November 2023;

— Review of Welcome to Your New Life Anna Goldsworthy , 2023 single work drama

'Anna Goldsworthy’s hilarious and beautifully honest book Welcome To Your New Life celebrates the joy and roller-coaster ride of first-time parenting.'

Play School Meets Ikea : New Australian Play Welcome to Your New Life Hilariously Captures New Motherhood Catherine Campbell , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 17 November 2023;

— Review of Welcome to Your New Life Anna Goldsworthy , 2023 single work drama

'Anna Goldsworthy’s hilarious and beautifully honest book Welcome To Your New Life celebrates the joy and roller-coaster ride of first-time parenting.'

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