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Mother of Him

  • Evan Placey
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Present Day, Contemporary
  • 4M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573701016

It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons… But eight year-old Jason’s refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda’s face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama
  • 105 minutes

  • Time Period: Present Day, Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Senior, Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
  • Cautions: Alcohol, Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, Professional Theatre, Shoestring Budget, Reader's Theatre, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, College Theatre / Student

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2011 Samuel French Canadian Play Contest
    Winner! King’s Cross Award for New Writing (UK)
    Winner! Tarragon Theatre’s RBC Under 30 National Playwriting Competition (Canada)
"If you were looking at us, you might have even thought we were friends. Old friends. If my son hadn’t raped her daughter." 

It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons… But eight year-old Jason’s refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda’s face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper.

For Matthew has committed a horrible crime, and as Brenda fights for him to be sentenced as a child, she learns it’s the laws inside the house that matter most: boys can become men, and a mother can at once become victim and monster. How far does a mother’s love go, and at what cost to herself?

Claustrophobic, intense, and intriguing, Evan Placey’s tight domestic drama focuses on the mother of the accused, rather than the perpetrator” – The Stage“Edgy, pertinent drama” – Islington Gazette“Not a false note in the entire play

Whatsonstage
Premiere Production: Mother of Him premiered at the Courtyard Theatre, London, UK.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 3F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Chorus Size: No Chorus

BRENDA KAPOWITZ - 45
JASON KAPOWITZ - 8, Brenda's son
MATTHEW KAPOWITZ - 17, Brenda's son
ROBERT ROSENBERG - 45, Matthew's lawyer and Brenda's friend
JESSICA - 16, Matthew's girlfriend
STEVEN - 42, Brenda's ex-husband
TESS - 38, Brenda's cleaning lady, Filipino

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'If you were looking at us, you might have even thought we were friends. Old friends. If my son hadn’t raped her daughter.' It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons… But eight year-old Jason’s refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda’s face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper. For Matthew has committed a horrible crime, and as Brenda fights for him to be sentenced as a child, she learns it’s the laws inside the house that matter most: boys can become men, and a mother can at once become victim and monster. How far does a mother’s love go, and at what cost to herself?

$24.95

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