Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby
by Morgan Gould

Name: Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby
Brand: Morgan Gould
SKU: 9780573710216
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby Book Cover — Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

90 mins Present Day Role(s) for Black Actor(s) Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes Comedy

Synopsis

Nicole is smart, successful, married to a hot guy—and unapologetically fat.

But her formerly fat, now obsessively thin mom, Helen, fixates on Nicole’s weight.

When Nicole visits her hometown for her best friend’s baby shower and reveals that she’s also pregnant, mom and daughter are forced to confront how Helen’s difficulty accepting Nicole’s body—and her own—has shaped their relationship.

A deeply felt, irreverent comedy about motherhood, anti-fatness, and the emotional legacy we pass on to our children.

Press Reviews

"Gould’s play is hilarious… [her] unblinking script presents many ugly truths of being a fat woman… [but] the revolutionary act of representing fat women on stage shouldn’t overshadow the well-crafted comedy, character, and dialogue on display."
— Arts Louisville

"The show tackles heavy topics like fatphobia, dysfunctional family relationships and complicated romantic relationships, the impact of emotional abuse, fear of impending parenthood… but everything is filtered through laugh-out-loud humor that sums up Nicole’s character and resonates with the experience of many fat women."
— Leo Weekly

"There’s a lot to unpack in Morgan Gould’s Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby: mom issues, food issues, the way our culture treats pregnant women, the way our culture treats fat women, the way we revert to our teenage selves as soon as we step inside the door of our childhood home, the stories we tell ourselves to get by. Yet this play never feels like a too-lofty ‘big ideas’ kind of play, but a funny, deeply relatable and human story about mothers and daughters just trying to figure it all out... Nicole Clark Is Having a Baby puts a strong, memorable character at the center of her own story, and reveals that her relationship with her mother — something plenty of us struggle with — is a much thornier problem than her size."
— Louisville Public Media

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Robert Arnold 30s, Black, Nicole’s partner	—	30s	30s, Black, Nicole’s partner
Helen Clark 60s, no longer fat, white, Nicole’s mother	female	60s	60s, no longer fat, white, Nicole’s mother
Amy Renna 30s, Nicole’s best friend from high school, thin, a townieAuthor's note on casting: Nicole should be played by a fat actress who is over 300 pounds. Sometimes people like me to define what I mean by “fat,” so I just did. It should be easy to find, fat women don’t blend in that well, try as we might.	female	30s	30s, Nicole’s best friend from high school, thin, a townieAuthor's note on casting: Nicole should be played by a fat actress who is over 300 pounds. Sometimes people like me to define what I mean by “fat,” so I just did. It should be easy to find, fat women don’t blend in that well, try as we might.
Nicole Clark 30s, fat, white	—	30s	30s, fat, white