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Birthday " review by Michael Billington

Royal Court, LondonIn Some Voices and Blue/Orange, Joe Penhall dealt with society's incapacity to cope with mental illness. Now he turns to the subject of male pregnancy; and what starts out as an amusing role-reversal comedy gradually turns into a disturbing attack on masculine presumption, middle-class racism and the apparent inadequacies of the NHS.It all starts quite jokily. Ed is in a maternity ward awaiting a c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AM on July 1, 2012

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