Over the past couple of years, Hampstead has profited from a canny policy of presenting some of the best contemporary American plays. This latest from the much-admired Rebecca Gilman should have been the next link in a shining chain, but unfortunately a drama-by-numbers about social workers left me decidedly underwhelmed. Perhaps it’s a sign of the degraded times in which we live, but we presume social workers everywhere will always be overstretched and so it proves here in Iowa, as Caroline (Sharon Small) has to decide what to do with the eponymous baby, removed from her 19-year-old addict parents, Karlie (Rachel Redford) and Peter (Alexander Arnold). Is her Evangelical Christian...
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