“In Mother Country, three Canadian women visit their British mother at her West Coast island home. The reunion crackles with tension as the deceit on which the women were raised is slowly exposed.” (From the CPO Website)
Characters:
Janet Montgomery: Sixty-five years old. English.
Her Daughters: All born in Canada.
Sally: About forty. Lives with a minor mental disability.
Doreen: About thirty-eight.
Fran: About thirty-six.
Douglas: Doreen’s husband, English.
Maurice: An elderly neighbour, English.
Sharon Grebnik: Twenty-seven, American.
Voice of Rory Montgomery
First Produced:
1980, Tarragon Theatre
Resources:
Mother Country is available through the CPO Website.
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Courtesy of Playwrights Canada Press