Oh Mother
A RashDash and HOME co-production, co-commissioned by Soho Theatre, Tobacco Factory Theatres and MAYK
“Astute, giddily funny and profoundly moving” ★★★★ The Stage
Photo by The Other Richard
“RashDash find a distinctive theatrical vocabulary for the life-altering event that is becoming a parent. The show is kaleidoscopic in focus, lurching feverishly from one scene to the next. This feels like the dramaturgy of motherhood – a series of interrupted moments, seen through the distorting lens of sleep deprivation.” ★★★★ The Guardian
This show is a fever dream made in the heat of the love, the exhaustion and the chaos.
It’s for our friends, our mothers, our partners, our babies and for any of you that are making a family.
Family means everything you want it to mean.
What a transformative thing it can be to take care of someone else, completely. How it rearranges you. How you might yearn to do it. How you will definitely yearn for a break.
It is relentless. Diabolical. Wonderful. Hilarious. Necessary.
RashDash and their mums explore having and becoming mothers.
“Wild and willful, ecstatic and enraged, this new show from vibrantly provocative theatre-makers RashDash hurtles into the experiences of caring and motherhood…Among the tumult, there are moments of heart-snagging, breath-catching introspection that are beautifully, translucently written: torrents of anguish and exhaustion, arias of guilt and wonder, hymns of profound, life-changing love.” ★★★★ The Times
Team: Helen Goalen, Abbi Greenland, Penny Greenland, Becky Wilkie, Katharine Williams, Oli Townsend, Helen Mugridge, Simon Perkins, Tricia Coleman, Simone Seales, Holly O Neill and Siobhan Rocks.