WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW and Other Plays, by Alice Eve Cohen Here are four brave, haunting, and heart-breakingly funny solo plays by writer and performer Alice Eve Cohen. WHAT I THOUGHT I KNEW is adapted from Cohen's award-winning memoir about her wildly unexpected pregnancy and the terrifying odyssey that ensued. In THIN WALLS, twelve disparate lives collide inside a century-old residential hotel, in a city in upheaval. THE PLAY THAT KNOWS WHAT YOU WANT takes the audience on an intimate journey entwining the myth of Odysseus with our contemporary desires and fears. In JESSICA'S CERVIX, Jessica floats out of her body to the ceiling and performs a darkly comic monologue, while her cervix is filmed for medical research. Cohen writes with humor, guts and honesty, finding the humanity in even the darkest roles. These gripping one-person plays, filled with multiple vibrant characters, have been presented at theatres and colleges around the country. They offer a thrilling challenge for any actor or director.

"Darkly hilarious...an unexpected bundle of joy."
-"O, The Oprah Magazine"
Alice Cohen was happy for the first time in years. After a difficult divorce, she had a new love in her life, she was rais-ing a beloved adopted daughter, and her career was blossoming. Then she started experiencing mysterious symptoms. After months of tests, x-rays, and inconclusive diagnoses, Alice underwent a CAT scan that revealed the truth: she was six months pregnant.
At age forty-four, with no prenatal care and no insurance coverage for a high-risk pregnancy, Alice was besieged by opinions from doctors and friends about what was ethical, what was loving, what was right. With the intimacy of a diary and the suspense of a thriller, "What I Thought I Knew" is a ruefully funny, wickedly candid tale; a story of hope and renewal that turns all of the "knowns" upside down.