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My Mother's Story

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Length 21:09
Licensor Teresa Goff
Producer(s) Teresa Goff and Karen Levine
Formats Documentary, Soft Feature, Special
Topics Family, Humor, Women
Produced May, 2006
Added to PRX April 11, 2007
 

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Summary:

A group of Vancouver actors gets together to try and fit the lives of their mothers into 1000 words or less. The project is called My Mother's Story and has become a stage show with the second annual performance on Mother's Day this year.

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Timely on:

May 13: Mother's Day

Tones:

Engaging, Light-hearted, Real

Description:

Each of us has or has had a mother.

As children we often take our mothers for granted, rarely seeing them as the rich and complicated human beings that they were and are.

But as adults, some of us can step back and see our mothers differently.

In this radio piece, a group of Vancouver actors has done just that.

Marilyn Norry, a Vancouver actor, asked the women in her email address book to write their mothers' stories in 1000 words or less.

The project is called "My Mother's Story".

Here is Marilyn Norry with many mother stories ....

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REVIEWS of this piece (1)

  • 04/07, [EB] Emon Hassan

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