A Collision of Culinary Practice, Culture and Choice.

Two performers, one baby. One life, one choice. Your hosts, Kerensa and Yuhui, are both women of childbearing age. One is a mother. The other is not. Both are acutely aware this single decision has the power to alter the course of one’s entire life.

This compelling live performance slips between the autobiographical and the absurd, the banal and the surreal, the conversational and the theatrical. Amidst chaos and control, restraint and rebellion, a baby watches the performance unfold from his throne. Drawing on their interest in domestic ritual, Diball and Ng-Rodriguez invite you in and offer morsels to share. Partake in their candid response to the pressures of being a good woman, a bad mother, becoming our mothers and what it means to have children. Or not.


‘Baby Cake is a fine example of life imitating art imitating life’ Myron My, My Melbourne Arts

‘An engaging, touching and humorous look at the struggles and judgement women face, whichever way they decide to serve their eggs.’ Anika Priest, Australian Stage

‘It provides an intimate opportunity (they literally sit in the audience throughout the show) to take part in some very candid revelations about the pressure of being a good woman, a good mum, a good daughter and what it means to have children. Or not.’ Melbourne Lyf

Created & Performed by Kerensa Diball & Yuhui Ng-Rodriguez

Presented by Next Wave and Darebin Arts Speakesy