B!rth

A rehearsed reading of plays describing the birth practices and folklore of various countries. I saw the Indian story 'Oroborus' which looked at a western doctor arriving in a remote Indian village and her relationship with the resident, local, midwife whom she describes as witch but ultimately comes to respect. The clash of medical protocol written in the city with local pragmatism and superstition comes to the fore as they have to decide between the life of a mother and her child in the last stages of a pregnancy. Moving and thought provoking I had no problem with the fact that this was a reading and am sorry I was unable to see the other 3 plays in the sequence (or sample the breakfast baps provided) ... it is an early start at the Traverse but worth it of you can fit it in.