Kelsey Thomas, Megan Simon, and Rachel DeRouen in Maybe Shower, the maternity rom-com from Austin director Lex Lybrand. Credit: Image courtesy of Greenless Studios

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If you were wondering how people were getting through the coronavirus quarantine, the big breaking news today is that there’s a world shortage of condoms.

Actually, it’s not quite what you think: Karex Bhd., world’s biggest condom manufacturer, has announced a massive shortfall in stocks, due both to increased demand and a reduction in supply due to reduced staff levels as they try to keep production line staff safe.

So unexpected pregnancies and pregnancy scares – the subject of the Austin-made Maybe Shower – may be on a lot of people’s minds.

Writer/director Lex Lybrand was inspired to make a film about near-misses after he and his wife saw a particularly obnoxious kid in a Target. But rather than make this about fear of paternity, Maybe Shower is about three women – Kelsey Thomas (who appeared in Lybrand’s Summer League), Megan Simon (of his 2015 horror Meet Me There), and Rachel DeRouen – all worried about test results. Their solution/coping mechanism is to hold a maybe shower, a long night at Spiderhouse where the trio and all the prospective dads try to figure out who they are and what to do next.

Read our interviews with Lybrand about the terrors of parenthood and the joys of filmmaking, then get ready for a night of making decisions and local laughter.

Maybe Shower

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This article appears in March 27 • 2020.

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The Chronicle's first Culture Desk editor, Richard has reported on Austin's growing film production and appreciation scene for over a decade. A graduate of the universities of York, Stirling, and UT-Austin, a Rotten Tomatoes certified critic, and eight-time Best of Austin winner, he's currently at work on two books and a play.