Pram Talk
Written by Rosanna Jahangard
Bills. Appointments. Expectations. Change… It takes a village to raise a mother
Bronte is trying to make the best of a bad situation. And she seems to be getting herself into quite a few bad situations. She loves her baby, but new motherhood isn’t quite what she imagined. Everything is different. Her job, family, friends, body… even her brain is different. She’s got a few precious months of mat leave left and she needs to sort her life out. There’s a stack of responsibilities she’s been ignoring and if she doesn’t address them soon, they’re going to come back to bite her. Can she find a way through the brain fog to overcome the biggest mess of all?
"I love the characters, I love the prose, I loved this mixture of the quite poetic and the prosaic" Lyn Gardner, Theatre Critic
One of the winning plays in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s national playwriting competition ‘37 Plays’, Pram Talk has had a sell-out run at The Hope Theatre in Islington, receiving standing ovations and heartfelt audience praise - “this is my story too”.
Pram Talk was created after years of research into matresence (a developmental transformation like adolescence for people who experience pregnancy and birth), including conversations with new m/others and those who support them, to tell a real story of losing your mind and finding your feet.
Everything in me is shifting, changing, reorganising… and that’s OK.
Content warning: Themes and descriptions of perinatal mental health problems and domestic abuse.
Age guidance: 14+
Running time: 60 mins (no interval)
Credits:
Written by – Rosanna Jahangard
Performed by – Grace MacDougall
Directed by – Tania Black
Stage Management by – Samm Chang
With the voices of: Amanda Chennell, Darren Hill, Lucy Mepstead, Sanj Cambley and Mykey J Young
Generously supported by Minghella Studios at the University of Reading, South Street Arts Centre, The RSC’s new work team and The Blackpool Grand’s creative learning team.
