Hazel was a high-powered lawyer on track to become her firm’s first female partner before realizing shortly after Daniel’s birth, and accidently leaving him in a shopping cart at the supermarket when her boss called with a client problem (73), that she couldn’t handle a life that combined being a mother and a practicing lawyer. Hazel, it is an attempt to maintain her own independence. For Richard, Hazel’s business is just seen through the male lens of a ‘girl-crush’ (65), but, for While Hazel struggles to keep up with her new, home-based business selling olive oil, bottles of product pile up throughout the home Hazel had decided to start the business while on a trip to Italy and after seeing a woman running an olive oil farm and restaurant while raising her own kids. “I can’t see how he could’ve just – not remember to tell me,” says Hazel (4), of her husband, as she protectively attempts to send the family’s new, covertly hired nanny on her way, but it is quickly revealed that Richard made a well thought out decision to hire Annie. A ‘gift’ from absent father and husband Richard, an Irish nanny from Sligo named Annie, descends on the East London home of a pregnant, stay at home mother, Hazel, who struggles to take care of her eight year old son, Daniel. Our New Girl, by Nancy Harris, presents a realistic look at the trials of marriage, parenthood and, the larger societal issue of, gender roles in the household that needsto be examined and consistently re-told in a post – #MeToo world.Īt the start, the surface plot of the play presents a contemporary Mary Poppins story, but goes far beyond this simplistic analysis. The piece has been called “so cruelly true it’s almost horrible to watch (Letts),” but in a world where lies and illusion have become every day television news drama, maybe that is just what our theatre needs right now: theatre that is both cruel and true. This is true not only because it challenges the audience and characters with knowledge and power, but also questions that which is part of our society at large. The then-pregnant star gushed in January: “We are so filled with gratitude, and we couldn’t feel more blessed and more in love with the thought of being parents again! Though there are still fears, concerns and uncertainties, we are taking extra precautions and praying diligently for the safety of our new little one.“Knowledge and power are constantly in flux in the play world,” says Fintan Walsh (2012) in his review of the premiere of Our New Girl at London’s Bush Theatre. In spite of our grieving, we have peace in knowing that our little baby is in heaven with Kelton’s sweet mom.”įour months later, the UPtv personality shared her pregnancy news, noting that her baby-to-be was “healthy” and “developing perfectly.” Even though we never got to see our baby face to face or hold its tiny hand, we know God has a purpose for its short life. “There is an empty spot in our hearts and in our home. I’ve never experienced the type of pain and loss that I’ve had these past weeks,” she wrote via Instagram in September 2020. The reality stars’ infant arrived at 6 pounds, 3 ounces and 18 inches, nearly one year after Bates, 21, opened up about suffering a pregnancy loss. 'Bringing Up Bates': A Comprehensive Guide to the Bates Family Read article