The Doula

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Company: Randy Pirate Productions

Genre: Play - Comedy

Venue: 6- Tom Hendry Warehouse

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Three women and a doula-in-training walk into a women's health centre.

The instructor of the prenatal clinic is delayed by bad weather, and so the women while away the time sharing stories from their lives.

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Expectations are not subverted here; what you see is mostly what you get. The play is populated by stock characters: the over-privileged lady who lives green and twerks for cardio, the 40-something mom who gets knocked up from a Tinder hook-up, the pregnant teen who's all bravado and sassand the soon-to-be doula who exists in the show to feed pertinent information about pregnancy and doulas.

Expectations are not subverted here; what you see is mostly what you get.- Michelle Palansky

It's not exactly ground-breaking but there are some very funny lines and the teen mom gets some of the best bits, "Polio is SUCH a good name for a baby!" In the end, the whole thing dissolves into broad slapstick which is as surprising as it is memorable.