Be My Baby

The best-selling play and GCSE set text.

Set in a Mother and Baby Home in 1964 in the north of England and peppered with songs from the period, Be My Baby follows the fortunes of Mary Adams, aged 19, unmarried and seven months pregnant. Forcibly sent to the home by a mother intent on keeping up appearances, Mary has to cope with the dawning realisation that she will have to give the baby up for adoption whether she likes it or not

First staged to unanimous acclaim and full houses at the prestigious Soho Theatre in 1998 with Eleanor Bron and Diana Quick - and again in 2000, Be My Baby has since enjoyed several nationwide tours and huge success with young audiences eager to discuss and debate the underlying themes and ideas of the play and how things might have changed in the last forty years