Queensland Day Play – Mother and Son

Mother and Son
by Geoffrey Atherden
Presented by Redland Museum & Theatre Redlands

As a celebration of Queensland Day ‘Mother and Son’, one of Australia’s best known and most popular television series, will be brought to life on stage by Theatre Redlands at Redland Museum.

The play, by Geoffrey Atherden, the playwright who penned the TV series, will draw audiences into the intimate and occasionally dysfunctional world of the Bear family; Maggie, the increasingly forgetful mother, her live-in, over-wrought son Arthur, his opportunistic and socially successful brother Robert, Robert’s ultra-snob wife Liz and a parade of lesser beings who are entangled in the domestic saga of the Bears.

Director Raymond Noonan, a long-time fan of the TV series, says that as soon as he read the script he felt compelled to direct it.

“It’s a really funny play,” he says, “but while the family’s mishaps and Maggie’s misunderstandings trigger the laughter we’re never laughing at them, we’re laughing at the situations they find themselves in – many of which we can possibly identify with!”

Produced to celebrate Queensland Day (6 June), the Redland Museum and Redland Theatre community invites you to join them for theatre and supper / afternoon tea.