Pinkie and April are like chalk and cheese. Read more …
Their tastes in fashion and attitudes towards life couldn’t be more different.Pinkie has pink punk hair, biker boots and hippy styles. April wears designer tops, skinny jeans and perfectly white trainers.
Being 15 is the only thing they have in common until they discover they are pregnant and both enrol at the Tinley Road School for young mums. What happens next is an emotional rollercoaster of breaking stereotypes, unexpected friendship and courage.
Baby Baby is a frank account of teenage pregnancy and highlights the realities of becoming a mum no matter what age you are.
Vivian French researched Baby Baby when working with a group of girls at a unit for young mothers in Bristol on a writing project. They talked about their experiences, emotions, discoveries and feelings before and after becoming teenage mums.
Kirsty Mackay and Natalie Wallace rise to the occasion with an unsentimental steeliness that does the subject proud.
It’s small wonder that many of the women in the audience at Menzieshill were moved to tears, by a play that finally transcends all the cliches of anti-teen-pregnancy propaganda, to achieve something far more complex, and more true.
Mother-daughter pairing tour new play Baby Baby
Dundee Rep Theatre, Dundee from Wednesday October 12, 2011, until Thursday October 13, 2011. 7.30pm. More info: www.dundeereptheatre.co.uk
On Tour, from Friday October 14, 2011, until Saturday October 22, 2011.
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