←Recommendations of YOU MOTHER

  • Cheryl Bear: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    Wow. This play will make your heart stop. An incredibly powerful and explosive confrontation that will resonate with parents around the country.

    Wow. This play will make your heart stop. An incredibly powerful and explosive confrontation that will resonate with parents around the country.

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  • Kevin King: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    In YOU MOTHER, LaRussa has created a taut portrayal of two women dealing with loss and crisis. She does a great job maneuvering the reader's/viewer's loyalties from one woman to the other. It's a tense reflection on school gun violence. It also asks the reader to consider the boundaries of personal responsibility.

    In YOU MOTHER, LaRussa has created a taut portrayal of two women dealing with loss and crisis. She does a great job maneuvering the reader's/viewer's loyalties from one woman to the other. It's a tense reflection on school gun violence. It also asks the reader to consider the boundaries of personal responsibility.

    ”
  • Joshua H. Cohen: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    As a parent, this play was difficult to watch, in the way that good theater should be difficult to watch. Challenging, unsettling, powerful. You feel your sympathies shifting back and forth between the two characters, and the deliberate ambiguities baked into the script reflect your own assumptions back at you.

    As a parent, this play was difficult to watch, in the way that good theater should be difficult to watch. Challenging, unsettling, powerful. You feel your sympathies shifting back and forth between the two characters, and the deliberate ambiguities baked into the script reflect your own assumptions back at you.

    ”
  • Jennifer O'Grady: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    An extraordinarily suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking confrontation between two mothers dealing in very different ways with traumatic losses due to a school shooting.

    An extraordinarily suspenseful and ultimately heartbreaking confrontation between two mothers dealing in very different ways with traumatic losses due to a school shooting.

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  • Suzanne Willett: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    LaRussa deftly explores a rare and necessary look at the human aftermath of gun violence.

    LaRussa deftly explores a rare and necessary look at the human aftermath of gun violence.

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  • Emma Goldman-Sherman: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    Love this play! 29th Street Playwrights Collective chose to do a staged reading of this play for our 2019 ShePlays Festival and had to cancel when our co-producers closed the space, but this play deserves to be heard! A vital exciting piece of theatre - I hope it gets produced soon and widely!

    Update - we did a reading, and it is such a disturbing dramatic piece! Great roles for women!!! Gave the whole room chills!

    Love this play! 29th Street Playwrights Collective chose to do a staged reading of this play for our 2019 ShePlays Festival and had to cancel when our co-producers closed the space, but this play deserves to be heard! A vital exciting piece of theatre - I hope it gets produced soon and widely!

    Update - we did a reading, and it is such a disturbing dramatic piece! Great roles for women!!! Gave the whole room chills!

    ”
  • Asher Wyndham: YOU MOTHER by Annie LaRussa
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    If you've seen or read Johnna Adams' Gidion's Knot, then you should check out the tightly-structured, nailbiting play YOU MOTHER by LaRussa. What causes a teenager to commit an act of gun violence against his schoolmates? What were the signs, the changes in behavior? Do we point at the parents? What if the parent of the shooter offers no answers? This is the kind of gun-control play that will offer an audience a lot to discuss after a staged reading or production. One of my favorite gun-control plays on New Play Exchange.

    If you've seen or read Johnna Adams' Gidion's Knot, then you should check out the tightly-structured, nailbiting play YOU MOTHER by LaRussa. What causes a teenager to commit an act of gun violence against his schoolmates? What were the signs, the changes in behavior? Do we point at the parents? What if the parent of the shooter offers no answers? This is the kind of gun-control play that will offer an audience a lot to discuss after a staged reading or production. One of my favorite gun-control plays on New Play Exchange.

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