Be My Baby - Softcover
Set in a mother and baby house in 1964 in the North of England, this play follows the fortunes of Mary Adams. Mary, along with the other inmates, has to cope with the shame heaped on her by a sweep-it-under-the-carpet society, as well as the realization that she will have to give up her child.
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Be My Baby has the heartstring-tugging potency of a pop classic. --Independent
You don't have to be young, female or unmarried to find it intensely touching. --The Times
It's ten years since the premiere of Amanda Whittington's play about pregnant teenagers being sent away to give birth and avoid the stigma of being unmarried mothers...Whittington admits she never expected the play to be around a decade after she wrote it and she's too close to the work to be able to say why it's popular. But she gets emails from students which convince her that society today has similar issues about young, single mothers.
The appeal of Be My Baby is that it throws new light on a decade which in some ways is mistakenly heralded as the swinging '60s, a time of freedom and choice when barriers tumbled more quickly than Phil Spector propelled girl groups to pop fame.
Behind the liberty, though, were victims, especially the young girls who "got into trouble", usually at the hands of men who discarded the responsibilities of fatherhood faster than a cigarette end.
Whittington's play succeeds because it shows not only that the girls are normal teenagers who've made a mistake but also that they were kept in the dark about what would happen to them and their babies. (It makes for) a fine evening's entertainment. --British Theatre Guide
You don't have to be young, female or unmarried to find it intensely touching. --The Times
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You don't have to be young, female or unmarried to find it intensely touching. --The Times
It's ten years since the premiere of Amanda Whittington's play about pregnant teenagers being sent away to give birth and avoid the stigma of being unmarried mothers...Whittington admits she never expected the play to be around a decade after she wrote it and she's too close to the work to be able to say why it's popular. But she gets emails from students which convince her that society today has similar issues about young, single mothers.
The appeal of Be My Baby is that it throws new light on a decade which in some ways is mistakenly heralded as the swinging '60s, a time of freedom and choice when barriers tumbled more quickly than Phil Spector propelled girl groups to pop fame.
Behind the liberty, though, were victims, especially the young girls who "got into trouble", usually at the hands of men who discarded the responsibilities of fatherhood faster than a cigarette end.
Whittington's play succeeds because it shows not only that the girls are normal teenagers who've made a mistake but also that they were kept in the dark about what would happen to them and their babies. (It makes for) a fine evening's entertainment. --British Theatre Guide
You don't have to be young, female or unmarried to find it intensely touching. --The Times
Amanda Whittington lives and works in Nottingham. Along with Be My Baby Amanda's plays include Satin n' Steel and the hugely successful comedies Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under. All are published by Nick Hern Books.
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- PublisherNick Hern Books
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1854594893
- ISBN 13 9781854594891
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages96
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