The birth of their daughter should be one of the happiest days of
Ed and Lisa's life. An NHS maternity ward and their somewhat
unusual circumstances make for an unsettling and satisfyingly comic
sequence of events that tests their relationship to the core, and
raises intrinsic questions about the nature of birth and renewal,
fear and isolation. Subverting the received gender roles to darkly
comic and disturbing effect, the play charts Ed and Lisa's
personally fraught experience at the behest of an NHS labour ward.
Penhall expertly weaves an acutely funny and emotionally charged
sequence of events: he pitches wryly observed gender perceptions of
a quite literal life and death situation against an indictment of
the NHS system. The beautifully observed writing is at once vicious
and searingly tender. Birthday achieves an intensely comic
counterpoint to teh visceral domestic drama sutured to bigger
issues of aspiration, sacrifice, who we are, how we communicate,
the triumph of tolerance, nature and ultimately love.
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