A sneak peak at a scene from MAXINE

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This story originated from two questions: What does it mean to be a mother? and What does it mean to be an artist?, And like a camera lens, the answer came into focus: their essence lies in the potential to create and then to nurture.

So, in a society which has inextricably - and unfairly - intertwined motherhood with womanhood, what happens when a woman cannot conceive or does not want to? How does that woman, who wants to create and nurture, navigate an unconventional path to these goals? A path fraught with obstacles designed to discourage and sometimes destroy. Out of these questions, I gave birth to MAXINE.

Maxine wants what many women want – to have control over her life, without the definitions and restrictions imposed by a patriarchal society. To create and nurture in the way that she chooses, not the way society has chosen for her. Her dreams. Her choices. Her responsibilities.

MAXINE imagines one woman’s struggle to find her place in the world, when the conventional pathway has been closed to her.

This is her story. This is my story. This is our story.