Colin Teevan's The Seven Pomegranate Seeds was first produced at the Oxford Playhouse in 2006. After a radio production at the beginning of lockdown in January 2020, Colin Teevan has amended his seven monologues, each based on a Greek woman in a play mostly by Euripides.
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This exceptional new play by Matilde Dratwa, who was born in Belgium but who now lives in New York, juxtaposes the mega event regime change of the advent of the Trump presidency with the micro in world terms of the birth of Vera (MyAnna Buring)'s first child. Of course for Vera, this birth is anything but micro as her life is turned upside down by the new arrival and responsibility for him. As Vera goes into labour with the supportive father of her child, Michael (Matt Whitchurch) in attendance, it is November 2016 and the states are being called either for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump.