I Killed My Mother

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Andras Visky's
I Killed My Mother, which is being given its New York premiere at La MaMa, under the direction of Karin Coonrod, is based upon real events, although how much is actual truth is not clear. This story of an orphan girl in Romania is told in a hard-edged, often impenetrable, and self-consciously poetic manner that doesn't much concern itself with historic context.

And while American audiences unfamiliar with the notorious conditions of the Ceausescu-era orphanages, where the play's action begins, might be perplexed by its bewildering plot points, the piece is worth seeing for the intense performance of Melissa Lorraine Hawkins - for whom the work was written - as Bernadette, w[...]