Ashes

David Rudkin’s intense, emotionally devastating British drama 'Ashes' arrived Off-Broadway at the Public Theater's Anspacher Theater in 1977, standing as a landmark production that pushed the boundaries of biological and psychological realism on stage. The searing plot tracks Colin and Anne, an intelligent, middle-class Northern Irish couple who endure a grueling, clinical, and deeply humiliating multi-year odyssey of medical examinations, artificial insemination routines, and miscarriages in their desperate, obsessive struggle to conceive a child, mapping their private reproductive trauma onto the violent socio-political fractures of the Troubles. Directed by Lynn Meadow, the acclaimed production starred Brian Murray and Roberta Maxwell.