Red Earth Theatre Company
“Night Mother”
Featuring Linda Damita & Kate Hawkes
Directed by Gerard Maquire
Friday, February 21, 7:30 pm
Presented at Studio B at the Old Town Center for the Arts
$5 door - suggested donation
A Mother and Daughter have 90 minutes to reveal unsaid truths - live theatre in real time.
Red Earth Theatre presents Night Mother a thought provoking ‘two women’ play at Java Love Café on Thursday, February 20th and at Old Town Center for the Arts – Studio B on Friday, February 21st. Showtime for both locations is 7:30 pm.
Night Mother by Marsha Norman won the Pulitzer prize in 1983 playing on Broadway with Cathy Bates and Anne Pitoniak and was later made into a movie with Sissy Spacek and Ann Bancroft. It is as visceral and timely as ever. A bold and sensitive exploration of personal choice, how can or should we affect anothers' decision and the complications of family history, the issues posed are as relevant today as in the ‘80s. The play takes place one evening in real time (90 minutes) in the kitchen of 40-something Jessie and her mother Thelma when Jessie announces her intention to take her life later that evening.
The audience is in the position of Thelma as she works to convince her daughter otherwise, and at the same time is faced with the reality that there is not a lot she can do. In the process the two of them share secrets and communicate as they have never done before. Written with surprising humor and even-handedness as the lives of these two women are revealed, Night Mother is an important play that serves to connect us to the humanity we all share.
This reading brings together two of Red Earth founding members Linda Damita and Kate Hawkes with director Gerard Maquire. Linda is known to Sedona audiences through her stage work (from Panache at Canyon Moon, as an annual performer in The Vagina Monologues and in Red Earth Theatre’s inaugural production Crushes and Bouquets); as well as on film, most recently as Lorinda Dawkins in the TV show The Rocks. Linda will also appear as Queenie in Red Earth’s March production of The Wild Party.
Kate has primarily worked in the area as a director (directing Linda in Panache and most recently Red Earth’s production of Painting Churches) although she appeared in her one woman show - Performing Wellness - both at Theatrikos and Canyon Moon in 2010 as well as on stage over the last few years in Prescott.
Gerard is highly regarded for his work as an actor and director both in Nthn Az and his native Australia as well as being an in-demand voice actor. He directed Kate in Performing Wellness.
Red Earth Theatre (RedEarthTheatre.org) most recently brought Painting Churches to the stage following Crushes & Bouquets – The Wine Show and the staged reading of Family, also presented at Java Love Café. In March, Red Earth will partner with The Field for A Night With Irish (Friday 14th) and then open The Wild Party at Sedona Arts Center on March 21st as one of the Chamber Music Sedona JazzFest events.
Join Red Earth Theatre and Java Love on Thursday 20th with fine coffee and good food, and at the beautiful Old Town Center for the Arts Studio B on Friday 21st for an intimate evening, and stretch your mind engaging in conversation about the differing impacts of live theatre and film as well as the issues explored in Night Mother.
For more information: RedEarthTheatre.org
Or call Red Earth Theatre, 928-399-0997
or by email info@redearththeatre.org
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