Baby, Love and Money
A young Chinese woman sets out with a clear plan: marry a Chinese man, live a respectable life, and make her family proud. But life has other ideas. When she unexpectedly falls for a Western man and ends up pregnant in London —unmarried and overseas—her world turns upside down.
Told with sharp humour and heartfelt vulnerability, this one-woman show boldly explores cultural expectations, love, gender roles, and the messy reality of motherhood as an immigrant. Funny, moving, and deeply personal, it challenges tradition while embracing the complexity of cross-cultural identity and female autonomy.
Audiences have called it “funny, sharp, real, painful, and heartfelt.”
Blending storytelling, comedy, and raw honesty, Baby, Love and Money invites audiences into the intimate world of a woman caught between two cultures—navigating guilt, joy, and the fight to define her own life. Expect to laugh, maybe cry, and leave thinking differently about love, family, and what it means to belong.
Details
Cast & Creatives
Writer: Mengqi He
Director: Julian Moore-Cook
Cast: Mengqi He Dir & Julian Moore-Cook
Date & Time: Sunday 5th October @5pm
Running time: 60mins
Content warnings: Suitable for ages 18+ racism, childbirth
Audience Guidelines
Latecomers will not be admitted. Ticket purchases are non refundable.
The Bread & Roses Theatre is an unfunded venue that continues to operate on ticket sales only. Donations help support independent arts and theatremakers, an essential step in preserving the future of fringe theatre.
Venue
Venue: The Bread and Roses Theatre
Home of The Lambeth Fringe, The Bread & Roses, is an award-winning and innovative fringe pub theatre.
A 50-seat fringe venue above The Bread & Roses Pub, the theatre programs a wide-spread variety of productions for local as well as far-reaching audiences. Equality, diversity and artistic quality are at the forefront of the theatre's programming, which features in-house productions as well as many visiting companies. The theatre regularly hosts touring shows and has worked with award-winning ensembles with decades of experience but also frequently welcomes and supports emerging theatre-makers taking their first steps. The programme includes new writing, contemporary revivals, reinvented classics and occasionally also devised work, improvisational theatre, comedy events, family shows and physical theatre.
Theatre: Capacity 50, full rig, lighting desk and sound system. Projector and mics hireable.
Perfect for: Theatre, new-writing, WIP, solo shows and boundary pushing work.
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