Tensions brew as Bean returns to help her brilliantly biting, stubborn Haitian American mother, Emi, recover from an aneurysm. Despite succeeding in many of life’s shoulds, Bean is lost, struggling to settle down, and her mother is having none of it. Poetic, personal, and prodigal, The Waterfall explores the complicated bond between mother and daughter, the notion that all women are born to be mothers, and what...
Tensions brew as Bean returns to help her brilliantly biting, stubborn Haitian American mother, Emi, recover from an aneurysm. Despite succeeding in many of life’s shoulds, Bean is lost, struggling to settle down, and her mother is having none of it. Poetic, personal, and prodigal, The Waterfall explores the complicated bond between mother and daughter, the notion that all women are born to be mothers, and what it means to live your own version of the American Dream.
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Shaun Leisher:
25 Feb. 2024
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A great two-hander about the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters. ”
Emi-64. Sharp. Quick. Hilarious. Hard on the surface. The moments when she is sweet or kind are not to be taken for granted.
Bean, 34.Thinks of herself as a high powered career woman. And she is, but she is also the same girl she was in middle school.