HIM at Union theatre

How do you repay someone who has given you everything?

When Jane unexpectedly falls pregnant with her best friend Charlie, abortion

seems like the best way forward. Charlie is gay (right?) and Jane is ambitious.

Not the best combination for trouble-free parenthood. Until…Charlie offers to

raise the child with his new partner, Osmond and with the help of his mother,

Nana.

Conditions are stated, contracts are drawn up and everybody settles into their

new reality. Charlie, Osmond, Nana and baby Kit move out of London into the

countryside and Jane moves to New York to pursue her career in fashion.

But, sixteen years later, with the fortieth birthday looming upon her, Jane’s

price for ‘settling’ suddenly seems unacceptable and she is back with a

vengeance - forever disrupting the veneer of Charlie’s cosy domesticity.

While HIM explores multiple current themes: female choices, gay marriage and

sexuality, above all it is a play about the complexity of love - romantic, parental

and marital.