My Mother Said I Never Should

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My Mother Said I Never Should is a play in three acts by Charlotte Keatley.

My Mother Said I Never Should was first produced at the Contact Theatre in Manchester on 25 February 1987.

This play is about the difficult relationships between mothers and daughters. A story which explores the lives and relationships of four generations of women: Doris, Margaret, Jackie and Rosie. Their loves, expectations and choices, are against the huge social changes of the twentieth century. When Jackie falls pregnant with Rosie she isunable to cope and hands over the baby to ther mother, Margaret. This play looks at the consequences of this secret and each womans opnion on it.