Mother

Title: Mother
Author: Keene, Daniel
Price: $25.99

Christy has found herself at the fringe of the world. Homeless, aging, living on the outskirts of suburbia, she attracts the curiosity of the locals with the story of her colourful, troubled life, but beneath her wild exaggerations and fantastic tales of loves lost and struggles overcome, there are the haunting truths that she would rather forget.
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Mother is a one-woman play that tells the story of Christie, a homeless woman in a world detached, unforgiving and destructive. It gives voice to the fallen and dispossessed, to those who exist at the edge of safety, at the point of being undone. It speaks of madness, denial, ignorance and free-falling poverty. Utterly devastating, yet written with Daniel Keene's characteristic lyricism, Mother is wrought with tenderness, violence and loneliness in equal measure.

'Daniel Keene is indisputably one of Australia's most poetic, thoughtful and probing playwrights.' - Bryce Hallett, Sydney Morning Herald

'Fashioning language is Daniel Keene's trade... You can almost imagine him pulling a red-hot word from a furnace, hammering it into shape and laying it down on the page to cool.' - Ben Cubby, Sydney Morning Herald

Cast : 1F

Author Daniel Keene's plays have been performed widely throughout Australia and overseas, especially in France. His plays, which include All Souls, Cho Cho San, Silent Partner, Low, Terminus, The Architect's Walk and The Ninth Moon, have received numerous literary awards.

By Daniel Keene
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* Life Without Me
* Nightwatchman, The
* Serpent's Teeth, The

Publisher: Currency Press Pty Ltd
Publication date: 01/05/2015
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781925005547
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping in stock