YOU BETTER SIT DOWN:
Tales From My Parents' Divorce /
Photos by Aaron Wesner
A heartbreaking and hilarious account of marriage and divorce.
Crafted from interviews between the cast and their own parents, YOU BETTER SIT DOWN 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 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 is partnering 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!
Watch the video clips!
Episode 8: What were we like afterwards?
Episode 7: What were the terms of the split?
Episode 6: What was your reaction?
Episode 5: How did you tell us?
Episode 4: Why did they break up?
Episode 3: When did the trouble start?
Episode 2: So... Married Life?
Episode 1: Was there something you fought over?
Listen to YOU BETTER SIT DOWN writers and actors, Jenny Morris and Matt Maher on WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show!
