Auditions for The Turnaway Play
Sat, Nov 01
|Station Theatre & Channing-Murray
Based on the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, The Turnaway Play features real-life stories of people who were denied abortions across the United States.
Time & Location
Nov 01, 2025, 1:00 PM
Station Theatre & Channing-Murray
About the Event
UCRJ presents a staged reading of The Turnaway Play, in partnership with The Station Theatre and the Spurlock Museum of World Cultures, directed by Christiana Molldrem Harkulich. Sponsored in part by an Urbana Arts & Culture Grant.
The Turnaway Play is about what really happens when people are denied access to abortion.
The play is inspired and informed by the groundbreaking Turnaway Study, conducted by Dr. Diana Greene Foster, a 2023 MacArthur Fellow and researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Foster followed 1,000 women from across the country for ten years and obtained the first scientific results on the consequences people face when either having or being denied an abortion. The main finding of the Turnaway Study is that receiving an abortion does not harm the health and wellbeing of women, but in fact, being denied an abortion results in worse financial, health and family outcomes.
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