![]() With many of the players doing double or triple duty, the play’s variously comedic and dramatic vignettes are delivered by a company that retains 80 percent of its cast members from the New York production. ![]() Hyde, and an orbit of relatives that range from sympathetic (Uncle Chris, Aunt Trina) to somewhat snooty. As directed by Jack Cummings III and originally staged by NYC’s Transport Group in 2014, it’s a production in which all of the play’s 25 men, women and children roles are performed by actresses aged 60 and over.ĭeveloping over the course of two years and numerous table readings, the Transport Group’s re-imagined “Mama” brought out “a really well written, solid-oak play about the idea of family.those small moments that define our relationships to each other.as well as people’s relationship to money.” Indeed, with the action keynoted by a scene in which Mama Hanson frantically attempts to balance the family budget against the educational needs of teenaged son Nels - each of the assembled family members offering to sacrifice something of theirs, so that the boy may attend high school - the play takes a too-rare look at the logistics of keeping together a family unit that includes hard-working traditionalists (Mama and Papa), ambitious dreamers (daughter Katrin, an aspiring writer whose diary entries frame this memory play), a literature-loving boarder named Mr. When audiences get a look at the final offering of the 2015-2016 season from Red Bank’s Two River Theater Company, they’ll discover that this is a different “Mama” than what they might remember. ![]() Adapted by John Van Druten from Kathryn Forbes’ semi-autobiographical novel “Mama’s Bank Account, “ the ensemble play went on to spawn an Oscar-nominated film with Irene Dunne, a TV series, and a Richard Rodgers musical - all while giving a first Broadway break to a rookie actor named Marlon Brando. It’s a show whose cast boasts some “500 Years Experience” - and with a company of ten players, doing the math reveals that we’re in the presence of some impressively seasoned performers.ĭoing the math figures prominently in “I Remember Mama,” the 1944 hit that detailed the day-to-day struggles and long term dreams of a close-knit, budget-conscious, extended family of Norwegian-Americans in early 20th century San Francisco.
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