ADOPTION PLAY PROJECT, 2016, MIXED BLOOD THEATRE (PHOTO CREDIT: LINDSAY MARCY)
What is the Adoption community?
Welcome! Adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, social workers, siblings have stories to tell about how we define family, identity, and culture. Stories of challenges. Bureaucracy. Miracles. Highs and lows. Stories of love and support, loss and grief. It’s not a one-time event but an ongoing experience.
“. . . We’re all on this journey, doing our best. We’re all confused and sometimes a mess. . .”
White Rabbit, The Adoption Play Project
Art We’ve Made
In My Heart: Graphic Novel
Created by Alan Berks & Leah Cooper
Illustrated by Becca Hart
THE ADOPTION PLAY PROJECT is now a graphic novel! Experience the play over and over again or for the very first time in this illustrated book.
Alice is getting married, and her sister Jen returns from Korea to be with her. But when the families come together for an engagement party, the realities of adoption send them down the rabbit hole. Can Alice, Jen, Alice’s fiancé Lewis, and their extended family survive adoption’s mixture of delight and darkness, absurd bureaucracy and hopeful fantasy, joy, and sorrow—while confronting an anxious White Rabbit, a cryptic Caterpillar, a vengeful Queen of Hearts, and the elephant in the room?
In My Heart: The Adoption Play Project
THE ADOPTION PLAY PROJECT ran December 9 – 18, 2016 at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis, with Adoption community members performing alongside professional actors. The play is a twist on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – with magical and familiar characters phasing in and out of real people’s adoption experiences. Audiences were immersed in an epic journey told through story, song, dance, and a chorus of adoption community members, sharing their life stories.
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