17/11/2022
Honoured to have Geoff come and see the show and to be a part of the ever growing Pitt Street Theatre whÄnau!
Itâs a very special thing to have someone so open supporting us through our processes.
NgÄ mihi maioha Geoff!
Coming to Pitt St Theatre this Thursday and Friday - Mother is a Daughter is a Mother - presented by Lost Property.
Written by Rhiannon Hadlow
Directed by Terry Hooper
Starring Isabella Temm & Rhiannon Hadlow
Who are you in relation to me?
I was privileged to see the dress rehearsal tonight of a very personal performance piece about how becoming a mother changes your relationship with your own mother.
The staging and direction are gorgeous and skilled.
Lost Property are fortunate to have the experience of Terry Hooper.
Itâs great that Pitt St Theatre can go from a historical piece about colonial NZ last week to this very Art House physical theatre piece.
The opening is lush, with beautiful lighting, a great musical score and a great use of the space. I loved the art references. (the small stage could have been used more after being so beautifully staged)
I loved the pacing. Sometimes children are frantic, sometimes itâs just lying next to them. My favourite part of the play was a non-verbal one. Two characters lie next to each other in sleep. The most intimate of moments. When a small movement happens it becomes the most dramatic of moments.
The combination of dialogue and movement born from the same tone will develop. When the dialogue came completely out of the moment or a movement it was truest.
This is a piece in development â where you can see questions being asked that havenât yet been quite answered in rehearsal.
The balance of the specific and the generic is a challenge
Is this totally a personal experience about a real mother or trying to speak generally about motherhood?
I found it immensely interesting and thatâs good; always good in theatre.
Isabella Temm & Rhiannon Hadlow had a great chemistry and a beautiful interaction that could go even deeper. Their moments of closing the gap and the space between them mean so much.
It will grow to adulthood. These are first steps. Itâs the kind of piece that one person will have a revelation over and another will scratch their head at.
Well, weâre all different and certainly different from our parents - even when we give birth.
Iâve been at four births and they were all dramatically different.
Who are you in relation to me?
One canât say because I am a parent that I know what your experience of being a parent is like. We have to listen to each individual and read between the lines.
Go see it. It's short - but a very beautiful baby.
Geoff Allen