A girl is lifted up amid a mass of plastic baby dolls held aloft by classmates under purple light.

The Mack, Mountview2026

Babies - Backpacks Company

The Production

Martha Geelan and Jack Godfrey's British pop-rock musical, in which Year 11 students are each handed a plastic baby to keep alive for a week, and discover that parenting is about far more than nappy changes. Performed by Mountview's musical theatre students at The Mack, Peckham (Backpacks cast).

36 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Martha Geelan
Musical Director: Isabella Guilar, Livs Needham
Choreographer: Sam Wilson-Freeman
Lighting Design: Alex Musgrave
Set & Costume Design: George P Martin
Sound Design: Ollie Brennan
Photography: Steve Gregson

Wide view of the full company huddled centre stage under pink and white light beams, with circular line markings on the set walls.

Close group of students in maroon blazers and school uniform crowd together, looking out with curious expressions.

Students carry a large cardboard box labelled 'Babies (for Year 11)' across a smoky, warmly lit stage.

Students in school uniform throw their arms up waving coloured envelopes in an explosive burst of movement.

A girl in a white school shirt takes a selfie with a grinning boy in a navy blazer.

Three students in maroon blazers hold up plastic baby dolls with mixed expressions.

A girl in a white shirt stares at her phone in shock between two classmates.

Three students leap forward under deep blue light, clutching baby dolls.

A girl in a white shirt and striped tie clutches her neck in panic against a deep blue background.

A girl kneels and stretches out a phone for a selfie, flanked by prams, under blue light.

A lone figure sits in a single cone of white light on a dark stage edged in red.

The company dances in a line under red and white light beams, arms raised.

Students cluster together on the floor in a pool of white light with red haze behind them.

A girl wearing a baby carrier looks down with concern at the doll in her arms.

The full company stands in a long line across the stage under purple and magenta light.

Performers in white outfits dance across the stage under angled white beams.

A group in white outfits strikes dynamic poses with baby dolls under bright blue and violet light.

A girl in a school tie raises her hands in front of a ring light and phone on a stand.

A girl in school uniform is surrounded by supporters holding up handmade signs under blue light.

Two girls sit on steps in warm orange light, one reaching gently towards the other.

A tearful girl in a baby carrier presses a doll to her face.

A student in a blazer kneels and reaches up into a single green spotlight.

Students in maroon blazers dance energetically across raised platforms under fiery orange light.

A girl with curly red hair in pastel pyjamas kneels on a duvet, laughing.

Two girls in pyjamas lie on the floor reaching towards each other as the company watches from behind in purple light.

A girl sings into a microphone with arm outstretched above a crowd bathed in green and pink light.

A girl wearing a baby carrier looks up with wide, anxious eyes under blue light.

Students in uniform slump together with baby dolls, exhausted, in warm orange light.

A boy sits in the corner of a blue-lit set holding two baby dolls.

A girl with curly hair clutches a doll in a yellow hat against a vivid blue background.

The company stands together in a crescent holding baby dolls under blue light and haze.

The company faces out across the stage beneath two sharp white beams in blue haze.

A girl in a baby carrier sings with fingers spread wide beneath swirling green light.

Students gather at the foot of a tall grey block as one climbs to a classmate sitting at the top.

The company celebrates around the cardboard 'Babies' box beneath crossing beams of light.

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