Mother Play

“Vogel, who loves a dirty joke, knows that laughter is a way of taking things seriously. Sometimes the best way… Thirty or so years ago, Vogel told a reporter, ‘I like theater that makes me feel like it’s a healing.’ That’s what Mother Play is, a balm that comes in cardboard boxes and packing tape. It honors the dead by making them alive again and nurtures the living by providing a place to put a daughter’s love and rage.” – The New York Times

“Painfully honest… The play is a slice of life, served raw. It’s a savage but grudgingly loving portrait of two women stuck together with blood: one who never wanted to be a mother, and one who never chose to be her daughter. ” – TimeOut NY

“A genuinely engaging examination of a family trying to find equilibrium… Mother Play is a mostly devastating narrative about a woman who can neither connect to her children nor adjust to the rapidly changing society around her. However, the narrative doesn’t sit in sadness. Instead, the dialogue boasts a web of humor and wit.” – Variety

“Paula Vogel’s latest work delivers all the humor and poignancy of a Tennessee Williams classic.” – The Wrap