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Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four, gay and 9CY's form tutor at a south-east London comprehensive. Alternately advising and battening down a group of fourteen-year-olds with a mixture of naivety and Scouse nous, Joe is flummoxed by his lover Woody's reliance on drugs. Then there's a pupil's birthday to negotiate: fending off the advances of her rapacious wisecracking mum, only to find himself entangled with her uncle. A warm and very funny comedy by the author of the 1993 popular hit of the year, Beautiful Thing.
Winner of the George Devine Award in 1993, Babies premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London in September 1994, with the following cast (in alphabetical order):
Vivian Williams: Lorraine Ashbourne
Ivy Williams/Valerie Pinkney: Helen Blatch
Drag Queen: Reginald S. Bundy
Gemma Sweeney: Joann Condon
Woody/Kenny: Karl Draper
Kelly: Sharon Duncan Brewster
Joe Casey: Ian Dunn
Sonia Sweeney: Elizabeth Estensen
David: Ricci Harnett
Manda: Louise Heaney
Ernie Sweeney: Kenneth MacDonald
Richard: Simon Sherlock
Tammy: Melissa Wilson
Tammy's Friends: Kerry Bradshaw, Caroline Carmody, Emily Jo Chaney, Elisha Holligan, Stevie Houston, Korhan Hussain, Michelle Ianiello, Lucie Johnston, Waheed Mohammed, Natasha Gill, Anyia Nwaka, Jacqui Thomas, Aisling O'Neil Zambon
Director: Polly Teale
Designer: Bunny Christie
Lighting Designer: Johanna Town
Sound: Paul Arditti
Stage Manager: Caroline Hawes
DSM: Kevin Fitzmaurice
ASM: Hedda Moore
Student ASM: Natasha Roffe
Assistant Director: Jeremy Herrin
Fight Director: Terry King
Voice Coach: Jeanette Nelson
Costume Supervisor: Jennifer Cook
Production Photographer: Ivan Kynci
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