Baby, What Blessings
THE PLAY: Baby, What Blessings by Siofra Dromgoole
"The other day I told someone I didn't think anyone did 69 between the ages of eighteen and fifty. Before you know what you’re doing, and again when you really know what you're doing."
Meet Billie. 19 at the start of the play. Hilariously self-aware and hopelessly naïve. She’s at the age where every single new thing she sees and learns causes her to entirely re-assess life. And the largest thing to happen is Amal.
"I’m not saying love at first sight. And obviously you can find people attractive however many times a day. So not lust either. It’s like this tug of expectation — as if here, in this new person, is possibility."
Baby, What Blessings, follows the trajectory of a relationship between a white woman and a black man throughout their student years. Darkly comic, the visceral impact of first love, jealousy and joy is sometimes as gutting as physical violence. The play is filled with twists and turns as Billie reckons with her own accountability and comes to assume responsibility for all that went wrong.
WHO WE ARE:
Writer: Siofra Dromgoole
Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
Assistant Director: Cara Dromgoole
Producer: Eliza Bacon
Cast: Grainne Dromgoole
Three Sisters Productions was founded by Siofra, Grainne and Cara Dromgoole (three real sisters!) to tell stories with playfulness and sincerity and champion female creatives. Last year Siofra Dromgoole’s debut play Walk Swiftly and With Purpose launched the company at the Edinburgh Fringe, before transferring to Theatre503 for a week in November, and performing at North Wall Art Centre’s Alchymy festival. Over two thirds of the performances of Walk Swiftly were sold out, and the play met with critical acclaim; the script is currently in development with Tiger Aspect. Baby, What Blessings was developed on the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting. It will be a part of Theatre503 and the Bunker curated London Previews.
Previous praise for three sisters :
‘It is possibly the most authentic portrait of contemporary youth at the Fringe this year.’
‘This debut play from Three Sisters is a titanic overhaul of depictions of young adult women in secondary school & it should be seen as genre-changing.’
‘Dromgoole’s script is a work of tightly-wound delight and heartbreak. It does not swing between these states (as many scripts might do, in the classic and popular ‘peaks’ and ‘troughs’ formula for setting script pacing), but rather weaves these two outputs together simultaneously.’
***** Broadway Baby
***** Felix Arts
**** London Pub Theatres
**** Everything Theatre
**** A Younger Theatre
**** The Student
WHY WE NEED YOU:
We feel guilty - we have probably approached you before and we may end up approaching you again (most likely). It's also always so strange asking for money like this knowing that there may be better things for you to be donating your money to. So we want to promise you that we wouldn't be making another gofundme unless we truly cared about the production.
WHY DO WE CARE ABOUT THIS PRODUCTION:
We care about this production because it reflects what we're about - it's a playful yet sincere piece of new writing. It's an important exploration of a difficult age, the highs and lows of first love, sex and relationships.
BUDGET:
In order to take this show to the Fringe we have a fair few costs to cover. We have a great venue - The Space on The Mile - which costs £1500. We also need to cover travel, accomodation, marketing and set etc. Any change you can spare to help us take Three Sisters' first production to the Fringe will be gleefully appreciated !!