Lichfield Garrick presents "No View from the Window".
22nd March 2011
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Award-nominated actor Rebecca Mahon leads audiences through a powerful, poignant, moving and comic story about a dysfunctional mother-daughter relationship.

 

Louise's mother has just died and, as chief mourner, she should be downstairs at the wake. Instead she has retreated to 'her room', the bathroom in her mother's house. Quite why this grubby, untidy space should be so special to her is difficult to see. But as the story unfolds it becomes clear why it is central to Louise's life. She tells audiences how this bathroom became her room as she escaped from her controlling mother. She looks back at her childhood: her first period, first kiss and first sexual encounter, her mother's affair with the bathroom salesman and her own marriage and relationship with her daughter.

 

Rebecca Mahon as Louise shows her by turn as a resentful adult still harbouring the anger towards her self-centred and uncaring mother, as a rebellious, sometimes silly but imaginative teenager, and as a mother herself, hiding a harrowing secret.

 

No View From The Window will be at the Lichfield Garrick on Friday 1 and Saturday 2 April at 7.30pm. Tickets cost from £10, and can be booked from www.lichfieldgarrick.com or by calling the Box Office on 01543 412121.

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