Female playwrights deliver Manchester's global festival of childbirth
Royal Exchange theatre to explore experiences of birth around the world in programme of seven new plays highlighting healthcare inequalityIn 2010, the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon wrote that every year millions of women and children die from preventable causes. "These are not mere statistics," he said. "They are people with names and faces."His remarks were part of the inspiration for Birth, a four-day festival o…