WESTPORT — Abortion, an issue at the center of this year’s elections, is the topic of a “dark comedy” debuting at the Westport Country Playhouse the night before ballots are cast.

“The Incubators,” a play about young pro-life activists, will have its first public reading at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7, as part of the theater’s New Works Initiative. Tickets cost $10, and can be reserved online here.

The play, written by Madison Fiedler, “humanizes a group of pro-life youth campers, some of which are unsure of what they believe, and some of which are just spouting what they’ve been told by their parents,” Liam Lonegan, the playhouse assistant artistic director, said in a publicity release.

The play “asks questions, rather than making some kind of didactic political statement,” Lonegan said. “It’s artistic, and not propaganda.”

The playhouse’s New Works Initiative gives a playwright and director two days to make changes and edits to a new play. On the second day of the workshop, the company rehearses for half a day, and later reads through the play for an audience, according to theater officials.

For more information and tickets, visit the Westport Country Playhouse website, call 203-227-4177 or email  boxoffice@westportplayhouse.org.