A Liverpool playwright has based her new performance 'These Days' on Postnatal depression after her daughter struggled with the condition.
Postnatal depression (PND) affects 1 in 10 women within a year of giving birth and can also affect fathers (as recently portrayed by Eastenders soap character, Stuart Highway). Street crime affects many people directly and indirectly.
Playwright Irene Stuart's daughter, Lucy, suffered PND following the birth of her first child 16 years ago. The play ‘Michael’ portrays her story through the couple Holly (Alice McKillop) and Jay (Jonathan Ali). Irene told the ECHO: "She never suffered with it following the birth of her other three children.
