"Riotous and Raw" -- NPR
TOO FAT FOR CHINA
Comedian Phoebe Potts’ one-woman show follows the surprises and painful realizations of her adoption journey with humor and candor.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
7:30pm performances: Friday, Saturday, July 17, 18
2pm performance: Sunday, July 19
DMK Theatre, 1980 Morris Avenue, Union, NJ
General admission $35 / Seniors $28 / Students: $20
GROUP SALES -- Call 908 809-8865
10 or more -- $20 per person
A limited number of free tickets are available for student groups
Touched by adoption? See resource list below.
About Phoebe Potts
A native of Brooklyn, where everyone was indignant before breakfast, Potts learned to tell stories to get her family to like her and to understand thorny issues. In Too Fat for China, Potts uses humor and honesty to tell the irreverent story of the terrible things she did for love.
Too Fat for China follows Phoebe Potts, comic storyteller and professional Jew, as she tries, fails and eventually succeeds to adopt a baby. After a US adoption goes horribly wrong, Potts finds herself surprised, disgusted and ultimately resigned to the role she plays as a middle class white lady in the business of adopting babies in the US and internationally. Potts’ tragicomic journey is about looking for more, more love, more life and more family and will do anything to get it, including having her morals and values fold in on themselves.
The Theater Projects programs are made possible in part by funds from the Union County Office of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and by the generosity of our many sponsors and donors, especially Ms. Stephanie Fein.
