Teenage Motherhood Is Serious, Especially With Baby Bling at Play
Charles IsherwoodNovember 1, 2011: The three young women chirping away like baby birds in a feathered nest in the opening scene of “Milk Like Sugar,” a provocative new play by Kirsten Greenidge that opened on Tuesday night at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, don’t seem to have much of anything special on their minds. With blinged-out cellphones clutched permanently in elaborately manicured hands, they are killing time in a tattoo parlor, exchanging texts with boys, arguing over whose phone is the coolest (“Slider phones are kaput”), and what’s the best kind of ink to be getting: a rose or a ladybug?
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