BabyLove Press

WINNER! BEST OF FRINGE 2006 San Francisco Fringe Festival
WINNER! AUDIENCE AWARD 2007 Frigid Festival

Comically provocative! A comfort to other new parents… the uninhibited Clifford delves into some taboo topics with uncommon frankness and disarming charm.
It's daringly personal and, in Clifford's unabashedly generous performance, as engaging as it is provocative. -San Francisco Chronicle

Hilarious! Marvelous! Engaging! A provocative piece of humor and great charm. Clifford takes us from trying to get pregnant through having a toddler, detailing the experience as it affects her body, her relationship to sex, and her physical relationship with her husband. It is this focus, delivered with great honesty, which makes BabyLove so unique, this unabashed fascination with how she has been sexually affected by it. Like motherhood, BabyLove may not be for the faint-of-heart, but is well worth your time. - www.nytheatre.com

If I were a mom, the perfect Mother's Day present would be a fat joint of homegrown
and two tickets to BabyLove. - Neal Pollack, author of Alternadad

A star performer! - Time Out New York

**** As dynamic a solo as you could want! Her reflections on the challenges and confusion motherhood brings to sexual identity and family relationships are thoughtful and provocative. Disarmingly honest... expert, hilarious and evocative! - Victoria Times Colonist

Taking up big questions, erotic...highly anticipated. - SF WEEKLY

One of the most original new voices to come out of New York City in years. Her warmth, intelligence and killer wit ...bring out the humanity in even the most outrageous situations. - Catherine Burns, Artistic Director, the Moth

BabyLove is the most important piece of feminist theatre since The Vagina Monologues. - kulturevermitterlin

Smart, sexy and funny! Clifford is a wonderful storyteller and is so funny, and she performs with such truth and authenticity, that by the end everyone in the audience wants to be her little one. - Mladina (like the Eastern European Village Voice)

Christen Clifford is a fabulous writer and performer! BabyLove goes to places about motherhood that few would dare explore. Speaking the unspeakable is one of my favorite art forms and Christen has the guts to put BabyLove on stage, outing another one of society's dirty little secrets. - Betty Dodson, PhD, a.k.a.”The Mother of Masturbation”

A wonderfully moving and inspiring performance! Brilliant! It was brave, provocative, truth seeking, wildly entertaining and funny, painfully honest, tender and very moving. We were all blown away. And touched in our own private ways. - Candida Royalle, filmmaker FEMME productions

Christen Clifford’s BabyLove gives a theatrical voice to what has too long been kept secret about sexuality and motherhood. Her stories about being pregnant, giving birth, concerns postpartum, and while breastfeeding reflect a common experience. The pulls and conflicting demands of motherhood are shown not to be at odds with a woman’s sexuality, but an honest part of it. Women will laugh in recognition and men will learn a lot! -Jean Levitan, Ph.D.Professor, and co-author of Healthy Sexuality

BabyLove is amazing! Afterwards, we stayed up and talked all night about our children and our relationship, and we knew that we were not alone. Thank you! - Carolina Franco, mother of three, Brooklyn

Pick of the Week: Maud Newton, The Smart Set, Lux Lotus, Girlie NYC, Urbanbaby.com, nycool.com, disinfo.com, 96 Hours, Bust Magazine.

Click here for the NYTheatre podcast featuring BabyLove

Click here for the coolashelltheatrepodcast with Christen

Click here for the Mesto Zensk interview from the Slovenian premier

Click here for the NY Theatre Mike interview