The Turnaway Play
Sun, Nov 09
|Spurlock Museum
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 09, 2025, 1:30 PM
Spurlock Museum, 600 S Gregory St, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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.
Because there is limited seating in our venues, we are asking attendees to RSVP here: https://forms.gle/8Kh5H8N967DUf3MXA
The Turnaway Play is about what really happens when people are denied access to abortion.
An urgent issue comes to life onstage through humor, drama, and audience participation.
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…