What begins as a riff on Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? morphs into a modern-day Doll's House.
New York Times on Playing With Grown Ups
The lighthearted title of Playing with Grown Ups disguises a darker core. Set over the course of a single evening, Hannah Patterson's ... play ... casts a nonjudgmental ... Read moreeye on a 40-year-old first-time mother who finds no pleasure in parenting ... There are echoes of A Doll's House and a refreshing lack of preachiness.
Time Out New York on Playing With Grown Ups
[An] enjoyable and thought-provoking four-hander ... There is something for everyone in this sharply observed comedy, which tackles everything from middle-aged regret and the myth of having it all to the question of whether fulfilment lies in a pile of nappies. It is potential dynamite and there are moments when this piece fizzes with comedy, as well as emotion ... The play is smartly funny and intelligent, and dares to confront a taboo: that not every woman falls head over heels in love with her baby, and that sometimes work may be more alluring and fulfilling than motherhood.
Guardian on Playing With Grown Ups
Engaging new writing that asks the important question can women have it all? without providing a simplistic answer.
Daily Telegraph on Playing With Grown Ups
Patterson's sharp, funny script twists the knife into twenty-first-century life, bleak in its portrayal ... of a generation of women struggling with the reality of feminism's legacy.
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