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Marvellous single work   drama  
Date: 2021
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Marvellous
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'Marvellous is a play about the everyday lives and extravagant, sometimes fantastical inner lives of two nonagenarian women and their 60+ plus daughters.

'Marvellous inter-weaves the voices and psycho-physicalities of elderly mothers and their daughters: their connectedness, their failing/falling bodies, their wayward memories and inventions.

'There is loss here – of control of faculties, of mental capacity, of bodily functions, of beauty – and a dark physical comedy is discovered in the changing shape of relationships between mother and daughter. There is also tenderness, and compassion for the ordinary pain of our lives together and in the cherished and lovingly curated archives of our human bodies in decline.'

Source: La Mama Theatre.

Production Details

  • Presented by La Mama Theatre at La Mama Courthouse, 23 - 28 February 2021.

    Cast: Hester Joyce and Meredith Rogers.

    Director/Dramaturg: Maude Davey.

    Composer: Madeleine Flynn.

    Lighting Designer: Gina Gascoigne.

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