Synopsis:
Winner of the 2025 New Works Festival, Best Play. There are all kinds of mothers. Helicopter mothers, benignly neglectful mothers, drill sergeants and spoil ‘em rotten mothers. But there is one thing most mothers have in common, they’re not quite sure they’re doing it right. So what happens when you take three very different mothers with three very different mothering styles and put them together in the same house for a month?
Margie is a ‘50’s textbook house and home mother. She lives to nurture her family, keep a spotless home and cook up a tempest in a sauce pot. Depressed and lonely with her children grown and out of the house, she is thrilled to learn that her daughter Stephanie, pregnant with twins, must come and stay with her while she is on bed-rest. Stephanie and her husband, Andreas, are just settling in when they find Andreas' glamorous mother, Viviana, on the doorstep– all the way from Colombia! Trying to make up for neglecting Andreas as a boy, she sweeps in and tries to take over. The only problem is, she doesn’t know a bulb of garlic from a feather duster. While each of the two mothers fight to change each other, Stephanie, hormonal and frightened, is not sure which “mother” she wants to be. The Odd Couple meets Pygmalion in this comedy about family, unconditional love and the choices mothers make.