Birthday
From: Friday, 22nd June 2012
To: Saturday, 11 August 2012
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Synopsis
Lisa and Ed are having another baby. Determined to do things differently this time, it's proving a bumpy ride. This is a whole new birth plan.
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Michael Coveney - 29 June 2012
One good thing about being a man is that you don’t have to have a baby. But according to Joe Penhall, whose Birthday at the Royal Court is the latest in his searing, funny and alarming forays into bodily functions and the health service, it’s no consolation to watch how it’s done.
The humiliation of childbirth has driven Stephen Mangan’s curly-headed, highly strung Ed into the strange position of going through the procedure himself. Yes, he’s completely up the duff on an NHS maternity ward, already induced, detailed for a caesarean, and looking forward to the epidural they won’t give him.
His high-flying executive wife Lisa (Lisa Dillon) had a difficult birth with their first child after suffering a series of miscarriages. So Ed has bitten the bullet, though we are spared the anatomical and biological detail of how this happened: instead, he’s taken to the physical inconvenience as only a man could,...
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Samsolo - 31 July 2012:
It was second-rate British TV sitcom from the beginning to end. A laboured premise (if you'll excuse the pun), cardboard characterisation (e.g. midwife and registrar) and not one funny line in the whole play. A disaster! Don't go!...
Cast
Stephen Mangan (Ed)
Lisa Dillon (Lisa)
Louise Brealey
Llewella Gideon
Creative
Joe Penhall (Author)
Coutts ()
Royal Court Theatre (Producer)
Roger Michell (Director)
Mark Thompson (Design)
Hugh Vanstone (Lighting)
John Leonard (Sound)
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