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What Are We Going to Do With Mama?

What are children to do with a parent whose usefulness has been outlived and who has become a burden?

  • One Act
  • Drama
  • 40 minutes

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Senior Theatre
Poignant and powerful, this play raises a question that at one time or another will be relevant for every member of every family. What are the children to do with a parent whose usefulness has been outlived and who has become a burden?

Through easily staged flashbacks, we see the mother help her various children at different times in their lives, but now none of them can take on the inconvenience of having her around.

In this provocative play, a perceptive playwright confronts the problems with insight. 

  • Casting: 3M, 5F
  • Casting Attributes: Parts for Senior Actors

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Poignant and powerful, this play raises a question that at one time or another will be relevant for every member of every family. What are the children to do with a parent whose usefulness has been outlived and who has become a burden Through easily staged flashbacks, we see the mother help her various children at different times in their lives, but now none of them can take on the inconvenience of having her around. In this provocative play, a perceptive playwright confronts the problems with insight. Div. int. set.

$19.95