The Metal Shop Performance Lab and JunkHeart present:

ANATOMY OF A SUICIDE
​by Alice Birch
​directed by Alex Mallory

www.themetalshop.org/junkheart for more information

Anatomy of a Suicide follows three generations of women fighting against the current of mental illness and inter-generational trauma across three simultaneous timelines.

Featuring an ensemble of ten actors playing 26 characters, Alice Birch’s Susan Smith Blackburn Prize-winning play draws the audience into a whirlpool of past, present, and future, and the vestiges they leave behind.

This production is independently funded by the producers and generous individual donors. All donations go directly to paying artists. If you would like to support our work, click here to make a tax-deductible donation to the production through The Metal Shop's fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.

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