There is common ground: military backgrounds, stern patriarchal attitudes. The evil chant of ‘Suck my cock, faggot’ is the least of it.īoth men also explore their relationships with their fathers. ![]() A two-way riff on how cleverly as parents they will deal with it: they’ll be praised by the teachers and fellow parents at the school! They’ll start a vlog about bullying and how to stop it called Bully4U! They’ll win the Nobel Peace Prize! And in fantasising about a possible future life as parents, they inevitably re-evaluate their own childhoods: Nir, a fake-fur stole around his neck, re-enacting the torture of a daily bus journey to school in his home country, Israel. The bullying theme returns again and again, in many guises. What if he’s a she? What do we know about vaginas? Wouldn’t a girl need a mother, not two dads? What if he hates us for being gay and bullies us? Then, there’s the fears related to their specific circumstances. What if he pulls a pan of scalding water over himself? What if he is bullied at school? What if he grows up hating us? What if he becomes a drug-dealer? A murderer? It’s We Need to Talk About Kevin on acid as George and Nir leap around the stage acting out their worst fears. ‘What if?’ becomes the motif of the show, which playfully and satirically explores all the universal fears that every parent or would-be parent feels. And they choose to share that process with us – the referencing of the making of the piece within a piece of theatre can sometimes feel awkward, but here it is a fully immersed aspect of the dramaturgy. In the making of the show, Ad Infinitum’s two co-directors do something they’ve never done before: share the stage, share the writing, and share the directing credit. Marrying ‘gender-bending musical cabaret and verbatim theatre’, No Kids is a feisty, funny, moving, thought-provoking exploration of that decision-making process. Create a mini-George with a surrogate mother who will hand over the baby at birth? Form some sort of idyllic three-way parenting relationship with the mother? Adopt a child from abroad? Adopt from the UK, which will almost certainly mean a child with severe disabilities or learning difficulties, or a child that comes with a terrible history of abuse or neglect? All of those possibilities bring with them a whole string of ethical conundrums. ![]() Or decisions, because nothing will be easy. As a gay male couple, it’s going to have to be a fully conscious decision. Kids? No kids? Kids? No kids? How to decide? Some of us don’t exactly decide – while we are chopping and changing our minds daily, we suddenly find ourselves pregnant, as if God or Mother Nature or whoever just threw their hands in the air saying: enough already, I’ve decided for you.īut that’s not going to happen to George or Nir.
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