To the Moon and Back

"In this extraordinary dialogic performance, a mother and daughter reflect on the experience of IVF from their respective perspectives – on the one hand of the fertility patient; and on the other, the person born as a result of reproductive science. With unflinching honesty, they reveal some of the hard and unspoken truths about coming to motherhood late and being born ‘special’ as a result and, as the story unfolds, it reveals their intensely close and complex relationship.

The artists will be joined for a discussion and Q&A by Victoria Macdonald, Channel 4’s Health & Social Care Correspondent, and Ann Daniels, record-breaking polar explorer and mum of IVF triplets.
Chaired by writer and journalist Jo Ind."

The project is co-commissioned by Fertility Fest and Motherworks in association with Furse's Athletes of the Heart. It involves a writers Residency at the Barbican prior to the performance and will be presented also at Motherworks festival, Cambridge Junction in June 2019.

This work continues Furse's ten year project The Art of A.R.T, an Impact Case Study for REF 2014.