About This Show

The setting is a small house on a lonely country road, which is shared by Jesse and her mother Thelma. As the play begins, Jesse tells her mother she intends to take her own life that night. At first she doesn’t believe her daughter, but as Jessie cleans the house and makes lists of things for her mother look after, the play moves slowly but inexorably towards a tragic conclusion.

New York Magazine said ‘night, Mother is “…honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic and…unmanipulatively moving…,” while the New York Times called it “…a shattering evening…”

Show Details

Running Time: 1hr 20min (0 intermissions)
Dates: Opening Night: September 26, 2019 Final Performance: September 29, 2019
Location: American Theatre of Actors, New York City

314 W 54th St,

New York,

10019

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Ticket Office: 6467656542

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