- Redland Museum - 60 Smith Street, Cleveland, Redlands
- 31st May 2024 - 09th June 2024
- 5:30 pm - 1:42 am
- https://www.redlandmuseum.org.au/whats-on/events/
- bookings@redlandmuseum.org.au
- $38.00 - $42.00
Queensland Day Play: Mother and Son
As a celebration of Queensland Day 'Mother and Son', one of Australia’s best-known and most popular television series, will be brought to life on stage by Theatre Redlands at Redland Museum.
The play, by Geoffrey Atherden, the playwright who penned the TV series, will draw audiences into the intimate and occasionally dysfunctional world of the Bear family; Maggie, the increasingly forgetful mother, her live-in, over-wrought son Arthur, his opportunistic and socially successful brother Robert, Robert’s ultra-snob wife Liz and a parade of lesser beings who are entangled in the domestic saga of the Bears.
Director Raymond Noonan, a long-time fan of the TV series, says that as soon as he read the script he felt compelled to direct it.
“It’s a really funny play,” he says, “but while the family’s mishaps and Maggie’s misunderstandings trigger the laughter we’re never laughing at them, we’re laughing at the situations they find themselves in – many of which we can possibly identify with!”
Raymond says that the carefully-selected cast – which includes some new faces along with the Theatre Redlands regulars – have recreated their own characters rather than attempting to imitate the iconic TV series characters.
“I wanted them to find their own expression of their role and it’s working beautifully,” he says. “I think I can safely say that this is the best production I’ve directed.”
***************************************************
Mother and Son will play weekends at Redland Museum 31st May – 9th June. For more information or bookings https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1208548 or call 3286 3494.