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A series of scenes and monologues depicting mothers who will go to ANY length for their progeny, leading to disastrous and hilarious results.
Included in the evening are “Entertaining Lesbians”, which premiered off-off-Broadway in 2004′s Manhattan Fall Collection Festival, and “A Lifetime Original Movie Starring Judith Light”, which filters the plotlines of 23 Lifetime Television movies into one woman’s very, very bad day.
The structure of “Bad Mama” is conceived as a scripted variation of the “Harold” format, a form of improvisational comedy created by Del Close. “Bad Mama” is actually three short plays, each consisting of three scenes. The audience sees the first scene of each play, then the second scene of each play, and finally the conclusion of each. The individual scenes are tied by a common theme, and then, remarkably, it all comes together in the end.
Bad Mama premiered in March of 2005, produced by The Process Theatre Company at Whole World Theatre. The director was Lily Yancey Miller. The cast was Marcie Millard, Rachel Sorsa, Frankie Earle, Jane Bass, Larry Davis, Alexius Hale, and Paine Calabro.
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