'Night, Mother by Marsha Norman

Jessie is an epileptic with a failed marriage and a delinquent son who decides to take control the only way she can with thoughts of taking her own life. Thelma, her widowed mother, is oblivious to her daughter’s depression until she becomes frightfully aware of her plans. It’s a heart-wrenching, riveting power struggle as Thelma tries everything within her power to convince Jessie to find hope.

Winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

This eloquent, enthralling and ultimately shattering play explores the final hour in the life of a young woman who has decided that life is no longer worth living.

“…honest, uncompromising, lucid, penetrating, well-written, dramatic, and…unmanipulatively moving…” —New York Magazine.

“It is sparse and concise, introspective and penetrating, powerful and uncompromising, intense and intelligent, warm and theatrical. It is THE American tragedy.” —New England Entertainment Digest.

“Something I hadn’t seen in a long time happened at 'NIGHT, MOTHER: The audience still sat applauding after the house lights came up, as if waiting for the cast to come round and join them.” —Village Voice.

“…a shattering evening…” —The New York Times.

NIGHT, MOTHER is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)"

Note: The performance contains discussion of sensitive topics such as mental illness, depression, and suicidal ideation. 
 

Cast

MARY GERACI as Jessie Cates

CATHERINE TYSON-OSIF as Thelma “Mama” Cates

MARIE DE LA HOX as understudy for Jessie Cates