21 – 25 June
Oh Mother
A theatrical exploration of having and becoming mothers
Asking radical and intimate questions about motherhood, the award-winning RashDash return with their
latest show Oh Mother to tour England this summer. Made with and for their mums, this latest offering from the
company has been inspired by becoming parents, by their families, their bodies, their friends and their mums.
Following recent shows Look at Me Don’t Look At Me and sold-out smash-hit Three Sisters After Chekhov
RashDash return to the stage with Oh Mother which will see core members Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen
perform and Becky Wilkie compose.
This show was originally intended to go into rehearsal on the first day of the first lockdown. Since then,
Helen, Becky and Abbi have all had babies. This newly devised show is for friends, mothers, partners, babies and
for anyone that is making a family. It explores what a transformative thing it can be to take care of someone else,
completely. How it rearranges you, how you might yearn to do it, and how you will definitely yearn for a break.
How it is relentless, diabolical, wonderful, hilarious and necessary.
Abbi and Helen said, “When we started making this show neither of us had babies and we were teetering on the
edge of the cliff asking if we wanted to jump, how it might change our lives and (LOL) how our babies would fit
around our work. A global pandemic and two babies later (one each) we are now asking how our work will fit
around our babies and contemplating how much our lives and our priorities have transformed. This show is a
fever dream made in the heat of the love, the exhaustion and the chaos. In conversation with our mums, but very
much with our own experiences now too, this show is about what a revolution motherhood can be. We jumped off
the cliff.”
21 – 25 June Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Raleigh Road, Bristol, BS3 1TF
8pm | 18
tobaccofactory.com | 0117 902 0060
RashDash was formed by Abbi Greenland and Helen Goalen at The University of Hull in 2009. After making
several shows together over the years, Becky Wilkie joined the core team in 2017. Previous work includes Look
At Me Don’t Look At Me (supported by Slung Low, Paines Plough, HOME and Theatre Clwyd), Three Sisters After
Chekhov (co-production with Royal Exchange Theatre, co-commissioned by The Yard, Tobacco Factory
Theatres, The Old Vic, MAYK and Cambridge Junction), The Darkest Corners (a large scale, outdoor, headphone
show for Transform Festival 2017), Two Man Show (made with Northern Stage and Soho Theatre, Edinburgh
Fringe First Winner 2016, Stage Award for Acting Excellence, shortlisted for an Off West End Award), Snow White
& Rose Red (a Christmas show for Cambridge Junction, 2015 and Battersea Arts Centre, 2017), We Want You
To Watch (by RashDash and Alice Birch, National Theatre and UK Tour, 2015), Oh, I Can’t Be Bothered
(shortlisted for an Off West End Award, Soho Theatre, 2014), The Ugly Sisters (shortlisted for the Total Theatre
Award for Experimentation and Innovation, Edinburgh Festival, 2012), Dark Woods Deep Snow (a Christmas
show written by Chris Thorpe and directed by Lorne Campbell for Northern Stage, 2013) The Frenzy & Set Fire
To Everything!!! (Lyric Hammersmith, GDIF, Imagine Watford and Latitude), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The
Royal and Derngate, Northampton, 2011), Scary Gorgeous (Edinburgh Fringe First Award winner 2011), Another
Some-One (Fringe First award winner 2010), and The Honeymoon.
Photo credit: The Other Richard
