How do you have a baby when you're thirty-nine and single?

You decide. But what happens next?

The story, like a child, has a life of its own. The story becomes stories…

A funny and touching play about the fertilisation of an idea, Nina Raine's Stories premiered at the National Theatre, London, in October 2018.

Stories was a finalist for the 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.



Nina Raine is a director and playwright. Her other plays include Consent (National Theatre and West End), Tiger Country (Hampstead Theatre, London), Tribes, winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and Drama Desk Award (Royal Court, London, and Barrow Street Theatre, New York) and Rabbit, which won her the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright (Old Red Lion and West End).



'Smart and funny... combines a topical immediacy with an ethical intelligence'



'Written with Raine's trademark wit'



'As ever, Raine's writing is pleasingly sharp, emotionally well grounded and brightly observant, as well as often hilarious and bouncing with ideas'



'Witty, engaging and informative... we're always in safe hands with the astutely inquisitive Raine'