Babyface at Drayton Arms Theatre

By Megan Peace

A twenty-four year old woman is faced with adult life after graduating from university, but the question she faces is unusual - how do you tackle adult life when you look fifteen?

Babyface is a coming-of-age tale as you have never seen it before. Exploring hilarious and heart-wrenching scenes of trying to be taken seriously when the world sees you as a child (literally), Babyface tackles themes of growth, comparison, and grief of our childhood selves.

Babyface began as a culmination of random scenes about true experiences the writer faced as a result of looking young. ‘Are your parents in?’ is not really what you want to hear while accepting a delivery of your 24th birthday present. The play follows Baby in her post-graduate life (which is beginning to feel increasingly like her school life) as she tries to navigate job hunting, love, and friendship, all while having the face of a teenager. How can she be taken seriously when she is ID’d for paracetamol? Through Baby’s hilarious troubles as a result of looking younger than she is, we learn that many of her insecurities come from people who perceive her as a child. But does she really view herself as an adult, or is she struggling to shake the child inside?