Charlotte Keatley’s play, My Mother Said I Never Should was first performed at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, in 1987, and won both the Royal Court/George Devine Award and the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play.

The play centres on four generations of women living through the 20th Century’s enormous social changes. Doris and her daughter Margaret experience the blitz. Margaret argues with her daughter Jackie about her hippy morals and unsuitable boyfriend. Jackie and her daughter Rosie hardly know each other, and don’t seem to care.

The play’s warm and poignant themes highlight growing up, growing old, and possibly, growing wiser.