Mom's Gift at Meadow Brook Theatre

Dates: (1/4/2017 - 1/29/2017 )

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Meadow Brook Theatre

Wilson Hall, Room 207, 378 Meadow Brook Rd
Rochester,MI

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“Mom’s Gift,” is a hilarious and poignant award-winning play by Minnesotaborn Phil Olson. Set in a suburban Minneapolis home, the tragic-comic “dramedy” that transports audiences from guffaws to sniffles in seconds. The set-up is based on a daughter’s therapist-ordered return to her family home on her father’s 60th birthday. Mom has been dead for 11 months, but she “shows up” at the party as a ghost with a mission – to accomplish a few tasks so she can finally earn her wings and “live” in eternal peace. But there are so many things to fix in this minimally functional Swensen family. And the problem is complicated by the fact that the only person who can hear or see Mom is her daughter. But one by one the family’s secrets are peeled away revealing a shocking truth that even shocks the visiting apparition. Olson grew up in Edina, Minn. His father’s grandparents emigrated from Norway and homesteaded a farm near Grand Forks, N.D. His mother’s grandparents also came from Norway and settled in Virginia, Minn.

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Where is Meadow Brook Theatre located?

Meadow Brook Theatre is at Wilson Hall, Room 207, 378 Meadow Brook Rd, Rochester, MI.

What is the history of Meadow Brook Theatre ?

Meadow Brook Theatre is a 501c3 non-profit organization and was founded in 1966. For over 50 years MBT has delivered Broadway quality theatre to audiences from the campus of Oakland University. Our Mission is to provide a season of innovative, Broadway quality theatre productions that make audiences smile, laugh and cry, enriching the cultural experience of the community in southeast Michigan.

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