THEATRE

Best. Dad. NEVER.

Hike Chahinian / Suzanna Rosenthal Productions

Venue

Just The Tonic at The Mash House

Dates

6–30 Aug 2026

Time

1:05pm · 60min

Price

from £8

A gay Armenian-American girl dad, setting out to be the perfect black girl magic-celebrating papa, stumbles through the hilarious and humbling fumbles of first-time fatherhood: from shopping for girls' swimsuits to catching his own bigotry. Haig "Hike" Chahinian, grandson of Armenian Genocide survivors, was expected to marry a woman from his tribe. Instead, he met his dream man and adopted a bouncing biracial baby. Inspired by his viral essays in The New York Times, this intimate, messy, richly relatable story unpacks what we inherit, what we pass down, and the inherent conflict in striving to be good.