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Tales From My Parents' Divorce /
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"With impressive skill, the four cast members… pull off a kind of emotional backflip…"
The Boston Globe
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Crafted from interviews the cast conducted with their own parents, Tales from My Parents' Divorce is a heartbreaking and hilarious account of the parents' marriages and their subsequent divorces. These delicate parent-child conversations have yielded unique insights into falling in love, falling out of love, and rebuilding a life after the complex experience of dividing a family.
The show explores each couple's first meeting, the ups and downs of their marriage, their split, and the surprising perspectives on life after divorce. In these alternately funny, devastating and revelatory performances, the four actors - each playing his or her own parent or parents - are the conduits of their parents' stories and, inevitably though sometimes inadvertently, also of their own experiences of family division. This provocative show reveals the stories behind the statistics of one of the most prominent social phenomena of our time.
In order to further explore the widespread phenomena of divorce in the modern world, The Civilians partnered with WNYC to continue this conversation with YOU. Visit WNYC's Culture Page to tell your own tales! You can also check out the user-generated comments and contributions of comic strips, a screenplay, audio, photos, and stories that have already been shared!
