Fragile Productions Closes NIGHT MOTHER, 6/20

Fragile Productions closes the run of Marsha Norman's NIGHT MOTHER on June 20th at the Greenwich Playhouse (Greenwich Station Forecourt, 189 Greenwich High Road) after opening on May 25th. Performances are Tuesdays through Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays ar 4 pm. Tickets are £12 and £10 (with concessions). Ticket information can be found at the website: www.galleontheatre.co.uk

Marsha Norman's Pulitzer Prize winning play confronts the issue of suicide and the ultimate self determination to do it. From the beginning the audience is told of Jessie's intention to kill herself and so begin her mother's desperate attempts to stop her. The play brings out in all its confusion, love and agony through Jessie and Thelma's struggle: a mother's instinctual fight to preserve her daughter's life set against Jessie's matter-of-fact determination to end it. Real mother-daughter actresses, Jayne Harvatt and Emily Connell plays Thelma and Jessie Cates. The production team includes director Emily Connell, producer Mark Connell, and costume designer Charlie Wilkinson.

Formed in 2006 to offer opportunities to writers, directors, actors and technical crew, Fragile Productions began as award winners at the Avon One-Act Festival with a two-hander, "Charlotte and Emily", starring Jayne and Emily for which Emily was awarded Best Actress. The Company then took their own adaptation of Terry Pratchett's "Johnny and the Bomb" to the Edinburgh Festival. Since then the Company has grown in ambition and reputation, staging Anthony Neilson's "Night before Christmas"; Lee Hall's "Spoonface Steinberg"; and "Fat Shirley's- a Trailer Park Opera", a bluegrass musical written by Tom Brown and David Crawford, of Tunnel Hill Georgia, producing the UK premier in Bristol, before touring it to Bath and London. Last year, Fragile revived ‘April De Angelis'; "Playhouse Creatures"; and showcased a piece of new writing, "Shite Christmas" by the playwright Harry Steele.