{"id":147204,"date":"2018-06-27T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/it-crowd-star-katherine-parkinson-on-the-responsibility-to-be-a-working-mum\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:10:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T12:10:03","slug":"it-crowd-star-katherine-parkinson-on-the-responsibility-to-be-a-working-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/it-crowd-star-katherine-parkinson-on-the-responsibility-to-be-a-working-mum\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Crowd star Katherine Parkinson on the ‘responsibility’ to be a working mum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image caption Sara Gregory (left) and Katherine Parkinson star in Home, I'm Darling <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Can you balance work and home life, and which should come first? That question is posed in a new play starring actress Katherine Parkinson, who says mothers have "a responsibility" to make the most of their skills.<\/p>\n

It's a familiar story in the acting world, as in all walks of life - a woman has children, pauses her career and then finds she's been left behind.<\/p>\n

"There are so many brilliant actresses in the generation above me where you go, 'Oh they were great, what happened to them?'" says Parkinson, part rueful, part indignant.<\/p>\n

"I know what happened to them - they just didn't feel they ought to make that choice."<\/p>\n

While Parkinson, who has starred in TV's IT Crowd and Humans, stresses she prioritises her two children, she sees no reason to sacrifice her career.<\/p>\n

Image copyright Manuel Harlan
Image caption Katherine Parkinson plays 1950s housewife Judy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was back at work six weeks after her second daughter was born, expressing milk on the Humans set.<\/p>\n

"I had to go against my instincts," she recalls. "I don't like showing people my ankles and I had to express a bottle or three and just do it in the make-up chair and lose any dignity and any sexual allure that I might have had at 5am.<\/p>\n

"You just do it and it's amazing how people adjust. There are so many dads, particularly on crews, and mums who understand."<\/p>\n

She's speaking while preparing to star in Laura Wade's new play Home, I'm Darling, in which she plays a woman who gives up work to be a housewife and live in a fantasy of domestic bliss.<\/p>\n

It opened at Theatr Clwyd in Mold, north Wales, this week and will move to the National Theatre in London at the end of July.<\/p>\n

The plot may be about a woman who walks away from her job - but, behind the scenes, things have been designed to make it as easy as possible for the show's cast and crew to juggle work and family.<\/p>\n

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