Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is?
When hosting a talk show on London’s Choice radio, Angie Le Mar received a call from a girl with a serious question. Her boyfriend invited four of his mates to have sex with her against her consent: did that constitute rape? She couldn’t ask her mum, said the girl, because her mum already thought she was a tramp. That frank phone conversation provided the inspiration for this hard-hitting urban-set play about mothers, daughters and peer pressure.
Though some of the transitions are clunkily televisual, the story’s real pay-off comes in the scene in which Le Mar physically attacks the boy who’s used and abused her child; it’s an intensely moving moment. And performance-wise, the rest of the young, untrained cast impresses, particularly Sophia Sinclair as the daughter on a journey from giggly innocence to harsh experience and a new-found appreciation for a mother’s love.
