Be Fruitful

*Be Fruitful* takes its title from a Biblical injunction that has echoed through Jewish and Christian tradition, then turns it into a question rather than a mandate. In a New York City setting—where lineage, migration, and chosen family intersect—the work traces how pressure to reproduce can shape bodies, belief, and community. Its NYC presentation reads as part of the city’s long habit of staging old religious language inside contemporary cultural debates. One could argue it is less about fertility than about who gets to define a life as “complete.”