Babies!

Last night was Baby Night. Having that element in the show brings a new level of excitement to Act II. Its funny – the twenty-somethings of course disdain babies and parenting and they’ll never go down that road, they’re too young and hip! (is “hip” still a word?) From my perspective the babies and the twenty-somethings are approximately the same age. When they go on about hating children I want to smile indulgently and pat them on the head. But even most of them had shining eyes during Christening. As for Father Martin – well – he could barely keep his shit together. The Christening Baby was a bright eyed smiling little girl who didn’t mind being christened Virginia. I found out later that her mother was also a Virginia Dare baby.

There was only one baby who cried, but it couldn’t have come at a better moment. During Large Assembly John and Eleanor knelt on the jetty, the rest of the Colonist kneeling behind them. When Borden started his line “Down the centuries to come there will be some mention of our name,” the baby cried briefly, but Sydney bounced her and she quieted.

 Paul Green couldn’t have written the moment any better.