written by Bridget Harris
Mother’s Day (working title) is a play about family, aging, alcoholism, old school Catholicism and, finally, forgiveness.
Tina, a childless, divorced woman of 45, has returned to her parents’ home after several years away. Her mother is scheduled for hip replacement surgery and her father, Tina learns, has health problems of his own.
Through direct monologues spoken to the audience, conversations with her parents, flashbacks to earlier times, and readings of her mother’s poetry, we learn of Tina’s troubled childhood, her father’s alcoholism, her mother’s Catholicism, the impact of both of these on their family life, and her parents’ current declining health.
As Tina grapples with thoughts of her mother’s life, her father’s life and her own, she learns to see their perspectives and gains insight into herself, as well.
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