BABS
composer, MD, performer
BOOK & LYRICS: MORNA YOUNG
MUSIC: BETHANY TENNICK
DIRECTION: BETH MORTON
CAST: BETHANY TENNICK (TAKEN OVER BY NAOMI STIRRAT ABERDEEN 2023)
“Young quine Lisa has been dumped by her best mate for a new man, and she’s raging. That’s their annual holiday to Ibiza out the window, and it’s looking like a Summer alone in Aberdeen for poor Lisa. That’s until Lisa’s fortunes change, and she finds herself at a forest sanctuary run by eccentric oracle Babs… but her house on chicken legs isn’t quite the destination Lisa expected…” BABS was a fast-paced and wonderfully odd one-woman show produced by the world-famous ‘A Play, a Pie, and a Pint’. I was asked to put Morna’s lyrics to music when I was cast in the show, and although I definitely needed help with the speedy Doric dialect, I immensely enjoyed created the sonic world for Lisa and all the other characters I embodied in the show.
(Pictured: Bethany Tennick)
(Pictured: Bethany Tennick)
(Pictured: Bethany Tennick)
CRITICS SAID…
“BABS is a solo show, with songs, performed and composed by Tennick who is a natural with audiences and manages to move between storytelling, stand-up, singing, guitar playing and drama with ease, smoothly incorporating any unexpected noise or reaction. Their performance is so engaging that you could almost forget to credit director Beth Morton…”- The Wee Review
'“Last, and recently seen in the rather splendid A Mother’s Song, Tennick remains in fine voice, displaying a fine hand with both guitar and ukulele. She seems perfectly at home as a storyteller, and never struggles to hold the audience’s attention; a fine trait in a cash-strapped performing arts industry.”- The Quintissential Review
“Delivered with tremendous energy and charisma by Tennick, who has also written several gorgeous songs for voice and guitar to accompany the story”- The Scotsman
“From Islander to Mother’s Song, and now to the unknown and distant woods of a ‘retreat’ run by the titular Babs, Bethany Tennick carries with them a suitable and well-earned mark as a heralding future of Scottish theatre… possessing a folk-lore element to their composition and melody”- Corr Blimey