Roslyn Packer Theatre, Sydney
Peake skilfully navigates the painful, raw experience of struggling to conceive in this stage adaptation of Julia Leigh’s memoir
In Avalanche: A Love Story, Julia Leigh’s 2016 memoir about the struggles to conceive using IVF, the author writes: “But what if my period hadn’t arrived? What if the test had been positive? My whole life would have changed. Just like that.”
And yet her life doesn’t change, at least not in the way she wants. By the end of the book Sydney-based Leigh had undergone no less than six rounds of IVF. At times, she got close to having a much-wanted child. But as she put it: a near miss is still a miss. At one point her sister – a mother of two – takes her aside. “You need to find another way to be happy,” she tells her.
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