Play Trailer
Tracy-Ann Oberman stars as a single Jewish mother dealing with the repercussions of her criminal son in Mother Of Him at the Park Theatre.
Brenda tries to manage her professional life whilst ushering youngest son, Jason, off to school. His elder brother remains asleep upstairs. This could be a day like any other, if older brother Matthew wasn’t under house arrest.
Pursued by the media and tormented by guilt, Brenda tries to to hold her family together as the world is set to tear them apart. Inspired by true events, Evan Placey’s powerful and provocative drama questions what it takes for for a mother to stop loving her son.
Tracy-Ann, best known for EastEnders and the hit comedies Friday Night Dinner and Toast of London, and whose stage work ranges from Shakespeare with the RSC to Pinter in the West End, plays Brenda Kapowitz in this award-winning play by the multi-prize winning playwright Placey.
Director Max Lindsay makes his Park Theatre debut following his acclaimed 2018 production of Angry at Southwark Playhouse. Mother Of Him is from the producer of Park Theatre hits The Life I Lead, Pressure and Madame Rubinstein.