Ask any mother (no matter how old) how she still feels about her “grown children” and you will get the same answer…“You will always be my child. Care does not shut off like a faucet. It is always on whether you want it or not. That is simply the way it is.” This is the gist of the play “Weathering”. It combines loss, laughter, tears, rage, dancing and some good common sense (or as we oldsters call it old school philosophy). Well worth seeing.
To see a full review of this show, read Mark Horning's Review here.
Dr. Yuko Kurahashi
In Act II, these women get together, forming a powerful united “being,” if not a “front,” providing a space for Lena and themselves to think and address women’s pains at a private and institutional level. About the latter—the institutional healthcare inequality— is addressed in the director’s note in the program: “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the infant mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black infants in the United States in 2022 was 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, that is twice as high as it is for White infants. In Cuyahoga Falls specifically, the 2020-22 three-year-infant mortality rate was 7.3; the rate of death for Black babies was 13.4 compared to the white rate of 4.6.”
To see a full review of this show, read Yuko's posts here.
