Cover of 'night, Mother

'night, Mother

In one room of a small family home, a young woman who has grown weary of living sits with her mother and begins to lay out the arrangements for her death. As the two talk through ordinary routines, the careful details of her plan come into view and the strain between them rises to the surface. The play is built around a single conversation, in which love, frustration and hope pull against a decision that seems already made. It is a quiet, unsettling drama about a family that is running out of words.

Audience
adult

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