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The Waiting Room, IVF and the sanctity of sex – review

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imageThe Waiting Room explores the love, loss and hope of IVF.Jeff Busby/MTC

Kylie Trounson is a writer and playwright – and the daughter of Melbourne IVF pioneer Alan Trounson. Her current offering, The Waiting Room, directed by Naomi Edwards showing in Melbourne, interweaves reflections on her own life and her father’s life with stories of...

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