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Plays about Mothers

Posted: 9/13/06 at 6:56pm

Anyone know any good plays about mother/daughter relationships?? Specifically, troubled relationships! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 6:59pm

Rabbit Hole (I think. I don't know much about the play)
Little Women
Gypsy (that's the one that really fits into your criteria)

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:08pm

La Casa de Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:10pm

Chica's right. That's pretty much the best one ever. Read it in Spanish if you can, but even if you can't, it's beautiful in English.

"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too." - Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 7:19pm

Night Mother

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 9:39pm

The Glass Menagerie
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
The Bad Seed

"The gods who nurse this universe think little of mortals' cares. They sit in crowds on exclusive clouds and laugh at our love affairs. I might have had a real romance if they'd given me a chance. I loved him, but he didn't love me. I wanted him, but he didn't want me. Then the gods had a spree and indulged in another whim. Now he loves me, but I don't love him." - Cole Porter

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 9:41pm

The Light in the Piazza ranks with Gypsy as the BEST musical and or play about mothers in my opinion.

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 9:57pm

Chica took mine!

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re: Plays about Mothers

Posted: 9/13/06 at 9:59pm

Only cause it's the bestest! :-p

#10

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:02pm

I reccomended it to my english teacher today. She'd never heard of it. I was sad.

I wanted to listen to the musical in class.

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#11

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:04pm

That IS sad. What a poor excuse for a teacher. pfft.

I wasn't too happy with the notion of a musicalized version of the play, but was pleasantly surprised when I saw it. Still, nothing comes close to the play itself. Very powerful.

#12

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:05pm

Lorca is SUCH an incedible writer.

I think that LaChiusa was the PERFECT composer for the material.

#13

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:05pm

Well by Lisa Kron

#14

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:11pm

I've yet to see it. I'd LOVE to direct it, though

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#15

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:12pm

I did a scene from it for a Combat class, and it was so fascinating as an excersize. In every line there is so much subtext, and the words themselves are just beatiful and beautifully constructed.

#16

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:15pm

I agree, although some songs simply didn't work. "My daugher died a virgin" loses a LOT of its impact by being sung.

But if it had to be done, I'm glad it was LaChiusa. And I quite enjoyed the musical, flawed as it may be.

#17

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:19pm

apparently, the actual production was quite flawed.

but LaChiusa has created some AMAZING melodies. Maybe it's Phylicia Rashad(??) who ruins the moment for you, I think it's quite powerful, but i've never seen a production of either the play OR the musical.

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#18

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:23pm

the beauty queen of leenane. very troubled mother/daughter relationship with a nice twist.

#19

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:29pm

My biggest complaint about the production was indeed Phylicia Rashad's portrayal. As many people have said, she just exhudes too much warmth to fully pull off Bernarda Alba (who should be a powerful, intimidating presence).

I do agree about the music, though. It's sublime.

#20

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:32pm

That was the NYT's complaint, as well. But Michael John did say in the "making of the record" video on bway.com that he attempted to make this bernarda more... "human"

whatever THAT means.

I love what it seems was done with the body, the dancing etc

"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed

#21

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 10:43pm

If you need troubled motherly and all around relationships in a beautiful play check out "By the Bog of Cats" by Marina Carr. Absolutely amazing and shocking.

#22

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Posted: 9/13/06 at 11:10pm

'Night Mother was mine, but if I had to choose a second I'd say...

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#23

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Posted: 9/14/06 at 5:27pm

Don't forget GREY GARDENS, if you are including musicals.

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#24

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Posted: 9/14/06 at 5:54pm

MAMMA MIA! hehe

#25

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Posted: 9/14/06 at 5:54pm

Ok.
Rabbit Hole is about a couple whose SON is run over by a truck. The son has been dead for a while, and we never see him (I was a ssigned it for school, AMAZING play, read it.)
And everyone took all of mine...so...yeah.

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