I Like Mine with a Kiss

Synopsis

Celebrating her 38th birthday with a night out on the tiles, Louise and best friend Annie realise that, despite their best intentions, they're still nowhere near to being like those enviable 'modern women who have it all' - something their friends, family and now even their lovers seem all too happy to remind them of. With a few home truths to face up to, and their friendship teetering on the edge, will the morning after be too tough to pill to swallow?

Our Review:

19 February 2007

Mike Bradwell completes ten years as artistic director of the Bush with a kiss: to the sub-genre of “mothers and daughters” plays that have characterised the tiny theatre for many years. In this case, Georgia Fitch’s sharp, often very funny, and obviously heartfelt play focuses on two thirty-nine year old best friends troubled by fears and woes of maternity.

The kiss of the title refers to schoolteacher Louise’s preference for a little tenderness with her morning order of fried eggs after sleeping with an indie film producer she picks up at a drunken party; we first see her gyrating like a lap dancer and collapsing into sexual free-fall.

She finds herself pregnant and two months later has an abortion, juggling the crisis, and the costs, between the hapless film man and her longtime squeeze, her married black boyfriend. Louise’s friend, Annie, has a sullen teenage daughter, Freya, who has developed a Sapphic crush on an older schoolgirl; then Annie, too, becomes pregnant...

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Latest User Review

Gareth James - 7 March 2007:

Though it lags a little in the first half, this is a lovely play with great dialogue and really well developed characters and relationships. The shorter second half is almost perfect and you leave the theatre deeply rewarded. This is Mike Bradwell's last production as Artistic Director; he deserves a huge thank you for bringing us so many great plays in this most welcoming of theatres. Gareth...

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