Taking Care of Baby
| Taking Care of Baby | |
|---|---|
| Written by | Dennis Kelly |
| Date premiered | 3rd May 2007 |
| Place premiered | Birmingham Repertory Theatre |
| Original language | English |
Taking Care of Baby is a 2007 play by Dennis Kelly.[1] The play is presented as a piece of verbatim theatre, a form of documentary theatre where the performer's lines are spoken word for word from interviews usually conducted for the creation of the piece. However the play's plot and interviews are in fact fictitious with all the material written by Kelly.
Development
Kelly originally was going to write the play about the 7/7 London Bombings continuing themes on the war on terror which are prevalent in his previous plays Osama the Hero and After the End. However he dropped the idea saying that he had "written it out of my system".[2]
In an interview with the Manhattan Theatre Club[3] in 2013 Kelly explained “I really wanted to write about truth. I really wanted to write about how we live in a world where everyone seems to be screaming at us that they’re telling us the truth and at the same time we believe less, so it has the opposite effect. Someone telling you “no this definitely is true” makes you think “is it?” So we’re living in a world where it feels like truth has become relative, we don’t trust anything and that doesn't feel healthy”