Baby Mash-Up, What On Earth Are You Doing?

Something isn’t quite right. Baby Mash-up feels that something is off, but she can’t explain why. Time and space seem to be shifting, and she wants to understand what is happening - and how she ended up here.

The story moves through different places and moments: Troubles-era Belfast, a field, a laundrette, the ocean, a bingo hall and the night sky. As Baby Mash-up searches for answers, she asks big questions about identity, memory and how we understand our lives when old stories about ourselves no longer feel true.

Blending everyday moments with surprising and imaginative scenes - and yes, even tap dancing - this original theatre piece explores how the ordinary and extraordinary can exist side by side.

Baby Mash-up looks at the dreams, beliefs, and illusions that shape our lives. It returns to the simple but profound questions many of us asked as children - questions we often forget as adults. Through Baby Mash-up’s journey, the play explores how we reconnect with life itself, beyond the limits placed on us by society, identity, and personal history. Along the way, she faces challenges including migration, war trauma, loss, and the experience of trying to belong in an unfamiliar or hostile society.

Baby Mash-Up, What On Earth Are You Doing? is part of the Traverse's £1 Ticket Project.

Image: Greenlight Creative

Supported by Creative Scotland and developed at Macrobert Arts Centre.