Know what to expect when you're expecting . . . Griff and Lydia Savage are expecting a baby. Their first. The time is right: the promotion, the house, the new car. They've planned ahead and conceived right on schedule. Their little stranger. Everything is just as it's supposed to be.

Little children aren't supposed to want to hurt their mummies and daddies . . .

I was presented with a new set of challenges for this show, namely a set which could be erected and struck in a fifteen minute turn-around by two actors and the director for the whole of the festival period.

At the beginning of the play, Griff and Lydia have been decorating. I wanted the fragmentary nature of the set to echo the false 'completeness' of Griff and Lydia's private world, the reality being that crucial pieces - such as trust - were missing from their relationship. The fragmentation also served to underscore Griff's gradual departure from reality.