Mourning Pictures

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Event Mourning Pictures
Venue Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn, London, England
First Date 14 March 1981
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description 'Everyone's mother will die, but Mourning Pictures crystallises the experience of one mother, dying of cancer, gathered in minute observations by her protesting, nonplussed daughter. This third in Monstrous Regiment's season of British Premieres is on the face of it the most conventional. A woman attended by expensive doctors and pampered by a loving family dies in undeniable luxury in East Coast America. But [...] Author Honor Moore chronicles the universal feelings of love and betrayal between mother and daughter. She forces us to look critically at our attitude towards death. Music is effectively used both to create atmosphere and dramatise the play's reflective soliloquies.' (Time Out)

This play was also broadcast as The Monday Play by BBC Radio 4 on 24 May 1982, produced for radio by Kay Patrick.
Description Source Reviewer's Opinion
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Drama
Play with Music
Subjects Cancer
Death
Family
Motherhood
Women
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Gus Garside Administrator
Tony Haynes Composer
Gemma Jackson Designer
Penny Cherns Director
Veronica Wood Lighting Designer
Josefina Cupido Musician
Tony Haynes Musician
Chris Bowler Performer
David Bradford Performer
Aviva Goldkorn Performer
Gillian Hanna Performer
Stephen Ley Performer
John Slade Performer
Honor Moore Playwright
Josefina Cupido Singer
Sheryl Crown Technical Director
Veronica Wood Technical Director
Text Nationality United States of America
Production Nationality England
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper Press clippings, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Programme Programmes, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 131377