I Like Mine With a Kiss

Before we go any further today - pick up your phone, dial the Bush Theatre, buy a ticket to see 'I Like Mine With a Kiss', and thank me later. Because if you don't, you will miss a brilliantly funny play in a wonderfully mini theatre about the 'modern woman who wants it all'. And, no, it's not about Victoria Beckham.

Georgia Fitch's new play is an hilarious, thoughtful, inspired, jaded, and above all brutally honest look at what the cult of child-bearing does to women. Two best friends have one night stands at their 40th birthday party, get pregnant, and set the stage for the clash of wildly differing takes on womanhood. Both lacking stable relationships, they begin to question the meaning of their lives, as man after man disappears looking for something that they cannot or will not offer.

The acting was superb across the six person cast. And I fell in love with Louise, a half drunken slapper and half successful teacher, as played by the magnificent Michelle Butterly. Think Dorothy Parker meets Sarah Jessica Parker: Louise is a fiery character who likes a drink or twelve and covers her internal weakness with noisy bravado. Rarely does an actor/actress play a role so convincingly you are desperate to meet their real persona. So I did. After spotting one of my favourite modern playwrights, David Eldridge, in the audience I stalked him into the pub next door to find all of the cast. We celebrated their brilliance and the injustice that after next Saturday the show won't go on.

Drunk talk aside, I vowed to spread the word.

I Like Mine With a Kiss
Bush Theatre, Shepherd's Bush Green
020 7610 4224
Until 17 March