Modern Plays
Baby
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti
Performing Arts / Theater / Playwriting
They name me Baby. Means you'll never
seem old, even when you are. You'll always
bring hope, even when there is none.
And you can always pretend you're wanted,
even when you're not…
Baby's bright and beautiful. Baby's trouble. Baby can do things nobody else can and
why not? Britain's got talent, hasn't it? Baby's had it tough and she wants to keep Bliss. That's all she wants. But something terrible stands in her way.
Now Baby has to solve a problem….and you're part of her solution. Because you're proper people. You must be, to be reading this. Plus, there's nobody else she can ask…
Baby's coming.
This edition was published to coincide with the Brixton House and Clean Break co-production at Brixton House in October 2026.
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti writes for stage, screen and radio. Her first play Behsharam broke box office records at Soho Theatre/Birmingham Rep. Her second play Behzti was sensationally closed after protests at the Birmingham Rep and sparked an international debate about freedom of expression. Behzti won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Other credits include Choir, Chichester Festival Theatre; Marriage Material, Lyric Hammersmith/Birmingham Rep; Scenes From Lost Mothers, Clean Break; A Kind of People, Royal Court Downstairs; Khandan, Royal Court Upstairs/Birmingham Rep; Behud, Soho Theatre/Coventry Belgrade; Silence, Donmar Warehouse; 846, Stratford East; Elephant, Birmingham Rep; Dishoom, Rifco/Watford Palace Theatre; Fourteen, Watford Palace Theatre; the feature film Everywhere And Nowhere; DCI Stone, Radio 4; Londonee, Rich Mix; Dead Meat, Channel 4 and An Enemy Of The People, BBC. She was a core writer on The Archers, part of the team who created the ground-breaking Helen and Rob domestic violence story and has written for EastEnders and Hollyoaks. She is developing various projects for stage and screen including original series Masala for Hometeam/Universal, as well as Brando's Bride by Sarah Broughton as a feature for Ffilm Cymru and writing her hit show Scenes From Lost Mothers as a film. Baby, a new play for Clean Break, will be produced at Brixton House in 2026. She is a member of BAFTA, a trustee of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation, an ambassador for Birth Companions, a charity that works to improve the lives of women and babies who experience inequality and disadvantage and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
| Publication Date: |
19 November 2026 |
| Publisher: |
Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| ISBN-13: |
9781350674844 |
| Format: |
Paperback softback |
| Page Count: |
80 |
| Weight (oz): |
16.0 |