About the Play:

And Baby Makes Seven has long been a favourite of acting teachers for Female Monologues, Female/Female Scenes, and Female/Male Scenes.

And Baby Makes Seven is a full-length comedic drama by Paula Vogel. With the help of their good friend Peter, Anna and Ruth can have a baby and start the family they've always dreamed of... but what does this mean for their three imaginary children? An outrageous dark comedy, And Baby Makes Seven gives a fresh outlook on what being a 'family' really means.

And Baby Makes Seven follows three characters as they wait for the birth of their child. Anna and Ruth, a lesbian couple, are preparing to co-parent with Peter, their more uptight gay male friend and the biological father of the naturally conceived baby. Hugely pregnant, Anna is ready to pop at any moment; but are any of them ready for parenthood? Tensions rise as the three adults prepare for the imminent arrival of their baby – and matters are made all the more challenging by the persistence of Anna and Ruth's three imaginary children – brainy Cecil, mischievous Henri and feral Orphan – that they have invented to keep them company. The lines between fantasy and reality, child and adult, love and madness crisscross through this hysterically funny and deeply touching play about what it means to be a family.

And Baby Makes Seven opened in 1984 at Eighteenth Street Playhouse in New York City, directed by Paula Vogel. It was then produced in 1986 at Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco and premiered Off-Broadway in 1993, produced by the famed Circle Repertory Company at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. The play has become a favourite scene study vehicle in acting classes and workshops and has been performed in regional and college theatre productions.

Cast: 2 female, 1 male

What people say:

"And Baby Makes Seven is a profound and clever comedy." — Drama-Logue

"What's remarkable about And Baby Makes Seven – a really lovely play – is the sense of innocence and optimism that rises from potentially dark subject matter." — Philadelphia City Paper

" And Baby Makes Seven is a hilariously inventive play. Playwright Vogel's writing is witty and precise." — Daily Californian

"Filled with outrageous touches, And Baby Makes Seven offers one of those rare theatergoing opportunities where everything comes together in a string of magical moments. Be prepared to be enchanted seven times over." — Austin American Statesman

"What makes And Baby Makes Seven fascinating is its brilliant unsettling of our notions, not of sexual boundaries, but of the real. It is theatre that cleverly theatricalises the everyday in a way that is both startling and funny." — Age (Australia)

About the Playwright:

Paula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. One of the most widely produced and honoured playwrights writing in the English language, her work has garnered numerous awards and prizes including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, New York Drama Critics Award, Obie Award, AT&T New Plays Award, among many others, as well as fellowships from the Pew Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She is currently the Eugene O'Neill Professor and Chair of the Department of Playwriting at Yale University.