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Vida con mamá (c.1975), Elisa Lerner

Titles
English title: Life with Mother
Date written: c. 1975
First publication date: 1976
First production date: 1975
Keywords: identity > gender, family, history, power > inter-personal/game play, power > media, women > marginalisation of, family > mothers and daughters, identity > celebrity
Pitch

An acerbic dialogue between two generations of women, an unmarried mother and her unmarried daughter who look back on their lives under dictatorship and democracy.  They try to work out what went wrong as they endeavoured to measure up to the expectation that they would marry and live happily ever after.

Synopsis

We are introduced to the character of the Mother as a Blanche Dubois-like figure, dressed for an occasion but with nowhere to go. She is a figure of faded glamour who harks back to a by... (Read more...)

Critical response

The first production of Vida con mamawas staged by El Nuevo Grupo in 1975 and was awarded the Premio del Concejo Municipal del Distrito Federal in Caracas. The play was widely critical... (Read more...)

Editions
  • Lerner, Elisa. 1976. Vida con Mamá. Caracas, Monte Ávila

  • Lerner, Elisa. 2004. Teatro Elisa Lerner. Caracas, Editorial Angria

Useful readings and websites
  • Klein, Dennis A. 1987. ‘The Theme of Alienation in the Theater of Elisa Lerner and Isaac Chocrón’, Folio, 17, 151-66

Entry written by Gwendolen Mackeith. Last updated on 13 April 2012.

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