Baby Dolls (NHB Modern Plays)

By Tamara von Werthern

A futuristic comedy about conception, state control and rebellion.
Three women meet at a baby shower. But darker things than cupcakes and babygrows are on their mind.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Nov 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781780019826

Tamara von Werthern

Tamara von Werthern is a playwright and producer. As a playwright, her work includes The White Bike (The Space, London, 2017) and the short plays Baby Dolls (Hackney Attic, 2015) and The Village Church. Her work has also been shown at the Royal Court, the Arcola Theatre, Burdall’s Yard, Bath, the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London, and the Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh, as well as a number of site-specific performances with her own theatre company Para-Site Productions and Plays Rough London. She is founder and producer of Fizzy Sherbet, a writing initiative for women from across the world with regular events taking place at Hackney Attic. She has published short stories and poetry as well as a crime novel written in German.

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Tamara von Werthern

BABY DOLLS

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Title Page

Original Production

Characters

Baby Dolls

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Baby Dolls was first performed at Hackney Attic, London, as part of the East End Literary Salon, in June 2015, with the following cast:

Characters

MOLLY

JOANNE

NATASHA

We are at a baby shower, at MOLLY’s place. There are sandwiches on the table, a few baby-gros unwrapped, a nappy cake, lots of pink, and wrapping paper. Half-empty glasses. MOLLY is six months pregnant, and in the kitchen.

On the sofa are JOANNE and NATASHA. JOANNE is absent-mindedly rocking a small pram from which a baby’s screaming is heard, and NATASHA is busy typing a text into her phone. MOLLY appears with a large platter full of cupcakes, all decorated lavishly, with different-coloured icing and sprinkles. She’s wearing a frilly apron, and looks flushed.

MOLLY.