'NIGHT, MOTHER at PETA Theater Center

The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) ends its 50th season by challenging local theater audiences to start conversations and explore issues on mental health, suicide, and family relationships via its Filipino adaptation of Marsha Norman’s 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama ‘NIGHT, MOTHER. Adapted by Ian Lomogo and directed by Melvin Lee. ‘NIGHT, MOTHER is an intimate straight play that stars award-winning actresses Eugene Domingo and Sherry Lara. Domingo stars as Jessie, a divorced woman suffering from epilepsy, who reveals to her mother, Thelma, played by Lara, of her plans to end her life that very evening. The play follows their back-and-forth conversation on the reasons behind Jessie’s decision to take her own life and Thelma’s desperation to convince her daughter that life is still worth living.

Authors

• Marsha Norman