No Mother, No Future

No Mother, No Future examines how theatre portrays pregnancy loss as challenging dominant narratives linking motherhood with futurity. Through intersectional feminism and reproductive justice theories, it analyzes how reproductive loss becomes a site of resistance against systemic violence targeting marginalized communities.

Kailin Wright is Associate professor of Canadian theatre and literature at St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Acknowledgements Setting the Stage and Staging the Future: Baby Makers as Nation Makers An Interview with Maev Beaty About Her Performance of Secret Life of a Mother 1. "A Child Would Die Here": Motherhood as Nationhood in Marsh Hay and Still Stands the House An Interview with Richard Plant on Directing the First Production of Marsh Hay 2. "Give Me Children, Or Else I Die": The Limits of Radical Motherhood in The Handmaid's Tale and its Television Adaptation An Interview with Bruce Miller, the Showrunner of The Handmaid's Tale Television Series 3. "We are Still Here": The Indigenous Child and Futurity in Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing and Tombs of the Vanishing Indian An Interview with Yvette Nolan About Directing Tombs of the Vanishing Indian 4. "The Future Stops Here": Racial Reproductive Futurity in Harlem Duet and Beatrice Chancy An Interview with Djanet Sears About Writing and Directing Harlem Duet Afterword: "Resistance that's Embodied" Index