Sarah Senff Performs Susan Miller's "My Left Breast" | Arts & Culture

OXFORD, OH (FOX19) -  Saturday, January 26th, 2013 Sarah Senff will present Susan Miller’s award-winning, one woman show “My Left Breast”  at the Oxford Community Arts Center. The production is sponsored by the Oxford Community Arts Center and made possible by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. Performance will begin at 8:00pm in the OCAC Theater.

This production is FREE and open to the public. Seating is limited. Reservations available by contacting myleftbreast2013@gmail.com .  Due to mature subject matter and some strong language, this play is not recommended for children under 16 years of age.

My Left Breast is a solo performance by award-winning playwright and real-life breast cancer survivor Susan Miller.  The work takes the audience on a journey through her memories.  Both funny and heart-breaking, we experience moments in her life as mother, as lover, as cancer patient, as survivor.  She takes us along for the ride as she grapples with the loss of her breast, her child, and her romance, as she deals with the indignities of side effects from her treatment that were worse than the disease itself.   Through it all, she seeks to draw us in to her confidence, and shares her tales with the audience like old friends catching up over coffee.  She makes us believe that there is a light at the end of the breast cancer tunnel.

THE NEW YORK TIMES"A metaphor of resilience... done with a self-aware humor and a literary acuteness that make her hour on the stage an enlarging experience.

"THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER" Her observations are always astute, usually wry and invite at least an inner smile of recognition. Some are laugh-out-loud funny."

The actress, Sarah Senff has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Belhaven University and is currently pursuing her Master of Arts in the same from Miami University along with a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her acting highlights include Mother in Ragtime, Aunt Eller in Oklahoma!, Cathleen in Riders to the Sea, and Irene Adler in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. She is also a mezzo-soprano who sang for two seasons with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. Sarah’s master’s thesis focuses on the potential for autobiography and storytelling to serve as a therapeutic means to restore the voices of women who have experienced silencing or erasures of identity as a result of breast cancer and its treatment.

The Oxford Community Arts Center is located at 10 S. College Avenue, in Oxford, Ohio. For additional information contact the offices at 513-524-8506, email info@oxarts.org, or visit their website at www.oxarts.org. Office hours are Monday – Friday 10am-6pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm.