Mothers Day/Fathers Day

Written By Giles Fernando
Directed by Penny Gkritzapi
Mothers Day/Fathers Day a form-twisting double bill about achieving your dreams, family competition, and the near-universal feeling of being a disappointment to your parents
MOTHERS' DAY
Starring Sarah Wanendeya as Pauline
Paulines back. You cant keep a good woman down. Or Man when Paulines around. This time shes on a double bill.
Come join her onMothers Dayas she takes you on the emotional rollercoaster that has been her life as an additional actress (shes not an extra), showing how, after her unexpected blessing, Samantha, she battled her jealous mother, her unhelpful husband and film sets without creches to succeed as a working mother in film and TV, eventually landing her dream role in Eastenders. Or did she? Should her daughter Samantha have followed in her footsteps? And who would have made a better Florence inAngel of Crimea,Pauline or Samantha?
Mothers Dayis based onThe DVD of Mewritten by Giles Fernando and Davina Leonard
FATHERS' DAY
Starring El Anthony as Joe
Joe, prevented from seeing his son, Davey, on Fathers Day steals a plane on a mission to see him, dodging a chasing RAF plane, surviving a stall over London, and, when faced with an impossible landing in the North Sea, perfects a loop-the-loop a world first in a commercial jet (inspired by the true story of the 2018 Horizon Air incident in Seattle).
But will he do his son proud, and finally get to see him?
Mothers Day/Fathers Daywill alternate between Act 1 and Act 2 during the run.
Produced by Paradigm Productions, in co-production with the Drayton Arms Theatre
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