This Review is from August 2025

Tamar Broadbent: Plus One, is a musical comedy show about fertility tests, failed birth plans and giving up alcohol for nine months.

This is a show that any parent, especially mothers, will relate to. The jokes are so grounded in reality, that as an audience, we found ourselves nodding along rather than laughing. The song titles tell the story of the show, I Don’t Want to be a Mum, Logical Next Step, Alcohol – I’ll Never Take You For Granted Again, A Mother’s Place is In the Wrong, Don’t You Wanna Have a Natural Birth?, I Tried Hard to Breastfeed – But It Sucked (the show’s best song) and Skin to Skin.

More thoughtful than laugh out loud, Plus One is an honest look at pregnancy and motherhood and should be available on the NHS.

The brilliant song, I Tried Hard to Breastfeed – But It Sucked features on Episode 4 of the On the Mic: Five a Day podcast.