THE BABY

REVIEWS

"Chris Hannan's new play explores love and the grief it can engender
when marred by circumstances. And for the fullness of that grief, add
in anger and guilt, distraction to the point of self-destruction, and
bewildered hurt that makes flesh feel as if skin would burst, it is so
uncontainable. The context is Ancient Rome but the issues are timeless
and on-going. Macu's limbo of self-loathing and revenge-wish, her flight
from those who love her- the straightforward, devoted Wocky whose
tragedy is that he cannot prise her from the dead nor yet leave her and
move on into his own future - touch directly on any place or age where
ordinary lives are wracked by power politics." Mary Brennan, The Herald

"By going so far from the norm thematically, Hannan has allowed
himself the room to create a period epic complete with all the trappings you
would expect from the great Elizabethan and Jacobean classicists who
wowed their audiences with heightened language, earth-shattering emotion,
weighty moral dilemmas, lowbrow comedy and disturbing, bloody
tragedy." Gregg Ward, Scotland on Sunday