The Turnaway Play Live-Stream
Sun, Nov 09
|Live-stream of The Turnway Play
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
Live-stream of The Turnway Play
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.
Thanks to our friends at the UIUC Library, the Sunday afternoon reading will be live-streamed. Sign up here: https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-V15kxeUQnS7LTC-j8REXA#/registration
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…