abstractSynopsis:
The play is based upon the playwright’s personal experience to describe the anxiety and expectation of an advanced maternal mother. Set against the backdrop of the rage of SARS in the summer of 2003in Taiwan, the story tells a woman’s unexpected pregnancy at the age of 45 and her subsequent dreams. Her dreams is mixed with her physical transformations in real life, past experiences of hers and her parents’, and many dreadful images. Not until three months before the delivery is scheduled does she come to a major revelation. To welcome the new-born life, the couple begins to renovate their house by painting the walls and changing arrangements;they also collect used cradles, baths, and toys from their friends. In the midst of these changes, it suddenly dawns on the women that she ever made a vow not to give birth. Now she is awakened by a new life inside her. This realization makes fear and denial subside and joy and expectation emerge. She has responded to the call of the nesting instinct and come to the terms of the fact that she is going to be a parent.