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Third Angel’s show about women’s experiences of birth is based on two years’ worth of interviews with parents and professionals, and leaves a strong impression of an NHS maternity service in crisis
The only predictable thing about Third Angel is, after 20 years in operation, how wildly unpredictable the company continues to be. In this case, it feels less like watching a show than attending a public meeting. The space has been transformed into a mundane facsimile of a generic church hall – scuffed parquetry, community notices, a tea urn from which the audience is invited to help themselves. The chairs have been set out in a circle, inducing a certain anxiety that at some point we might be expected to speak.
It seems that we are here to talk about birth – not about pregnancy or post-natal care, but the moment itself in all its agonising, euphoric glory. Under the supervision of director Rachael Walton, the company spent two years interviewing mothers, partners, obstetricians and midwives, and compiled the transcripts into a 90-minute piece that is part verbatim theatre, part surreal cabaret on the indignities of labour.
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