Mine **** - TNT
Having it all proves unexpectedly problematic for an unnamed Man and Woman with the ideal home, glamorous careers and more money than they need when they eventually take home the baby they’ve been awaiting for a long, long time. Unable to have children themselves, they’ve finally reached the top of the list to foster with a view to adoption.
Life should be perfect, but the tiny mite comes with baggage – a mother who drinks, takes drugs and sells herself to pay for her habit. But she also has a heartfelt determination to prove that she can turn things round and win her baby back.
Polly Teale’s new play, which she directs herself, incorporates Shared Experience theatre company’s trademark integration of physicality and text to contrast two very different lifestyles, revealing the cracks and insecurities beneath apparent perfection as well as the guilt which can be born from the best intentions.
Well-acted and atmospheric, her production (played out against fluid video projections, watery as a womb) gives added poignancy to an emotionally complex, if not unfamiliar, situation in which the answers are not always clear cut.
Hampstead, Eton Ave, NW3. 020 7722 9301. October 25. £25-£15
Having it all proves unexpectedly problematic for an unnamed Man and Woman with the ideal home, glamorous careers and more money than they need when they eventually take home the baby they’ve been awaiting for a long, long time. Unable to have children themselves, they’ve finally reached the top of the list to foster with a view to adoption.
Life should be perfect, but the tiny mite comes with baggage – a mother who drinks, takes drugs and sells herself to pay for her habit. But she also has a heartfelt determination to prove that she can turn things round and win her baby back.
Polly Teale’s new play, which she directs herself, incorporates Shared Experience theatre company’s trademark integration of physicality and text to contrast two very different lifestyles, revealing the cracks and insecurities beneath apparent perfection as well as the guilt which can be born from the best intentions.
Well-acted and atmospheric, her production (played out against fluid video projections, watery as a womb) gives added poignancy to an emotionally complex, if not unfamiliar, situation in which the answers are not always clear cut.
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