Little Baby Nothing

Synopsis

They're typical teenagers - dabbling with Satanism, sex and Spar's finest vodka to an extreme metal soundtrack. Up on the roof of El's Bristol flat they're reciting the lord's prayer backwards, perfecting chalk pentagrams and making black cloaks out of El's Mum's sheets - their rucksacks stuffed with black candles, cigarettes and cheap booze. When one of their rituals gets out of hand and El's dead father is invoked, family relationships and friendships get twisted up in the brewing chaos that follows. Can they control the forces of darkness or will it all get out of hand? And what do you do when your Mum s as big a teenager as you? Contains strong language and sexual references.

Our Review:

24 May 2003

Writer Catherine Johnson has eclectic taste in music. Having penned the book for Abba based musical Mamma Mia! her latest piece Little Baby Nothing is named after a Manic Street Preachers hit - and opens to “Disponsable Teens” by Marilyn Manson. Other tunes included range from Jimmy Hendrix to Tatu and DJ Shadow. Johnson’s reason for naming her work after songs is superstitious - she thinks it’s lucky, and in Little Baby Nothing the charm has worked.

The action unfolds on the dilapidated roof-top terrace of a Bristolean house where Anna and her daughter El live. Anna struggles with her crappy pub job, lousy married boyfriend and Satan worshipping teen. El slouches about eating pizza, head banging and devising ways to contact her dead father with her partners in crime Joby - a slasher film addict - and Erin - a remedial bulimic. As the year progresses, and each of the ‘unholy trinity’ turn 15, they learn a litt...

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