Three generations of women in the same family unexpectedly find themselves sharing a one-bed flat in this bustling debut play by Lydia Marchant. When 22-year-old Sophie discovers she’s pregnant, she moves in with her mum, Rachel, who has just got used to her independence. They are joined by Rachel’s mother, Linda, who is similarly reluctant to readjust her life for a baby Sophie will otherwise raise alone.
Part of the fun of Marchant’s play, set in her native Hull, is upturning traditional family dynamics: it is the rudely awoken Sophie who chastises her mother for returning drunk at 4.30am wearing a dress pinched from her daughter. There is plenty of ribald humour from the get-go as Sophie – eyes despairing, arms flailing – re-enacts her attempts to fish out a condom that has come off during her one-night stand.
