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Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 1m
A Play in Five Evictions By Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel’s hilarious and heartbreaking semi-autobiographical portrait of a mother and her two children reveals – through five evictions – timeless truths of love, family and forgiveness.
Image: 2024 Second Stage Theater Production (Joan Marcus)
Nominee: Four 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Play Nominee: Four 2024 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Play Nominee: Three 2024 Drama League Awards, including Best Play Nominee: Three 2024 Outer Critics Circle Awards, including Outstanding New Broadway Play
It’s 1962, just outside of D.C., and matriarch Phyllis is supervising her teenage children, Carl and Martha, as they move into a new apartment. Phyllis has strong ideas about what her children need to do and be to succeed, and woe to the child who finds their own path. Bolstered by gin and cigarettes, the family endures – or survives – the changing world around them. Blending flares of imaginative theatricality, surreal farce, and deep tenderness, this beautiful roller coaster ride reveals timeless truths of love, family and forgiveness.
A series of apartments from 1962 to 21st-century America.
“A genuinely engaging examination of a family trying to find equilibrium.” – Variety
“Vogel, who loves a dirty joke, knows that laughter is a way of taking things seriously. Sometimes the best way… Thirty or so years ago, Vogel told a reporter, ‘I like theater that makes me feel like it’s a healing.’ That’s what Mother Play is, a balm that comes in cardboard boxes and packing tape. It honors the dead by making them alive again and nurtures the living by providing a place to put a daughter’s love and rage.” – The New York Times
“Painfully honest… The play is a slice of life, served raw. It’s a savage but grudgingly loving portrait of two women stuck together with blood: one who never wanted to be a mother, and one who never chose to be her daughter. ” – TimeOut NY
“A genuinely engaging examination of a family trying to find equilibrium… Mother Play is a mostly devastating narrative about a woman who can neither connect to her children nor adjust to the rapidly changing society around her. However, the narrative doesn’t sit in sadness. Instead, the dialogue boasts a web of humor and wit.” – Variety
“Paula Vogel’s latest work delivers all the humor and poignancy of a Tennessee Williams classic.” – The Wrap
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