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category: Drama
published: Feb 2009
ISBN:9780887548536
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Good Mother

by Damien Atkins

tagged: canadian
Description

The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother, leaving them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory. Touching and powerful, Good Mother examines the ties that hold a family together and the crises that draw them apart. A compelling drama by one of Canada’s most promising young playwrights.

About the Author

Damien Atkins

Actor and playwright Damien Atkins was born in Australia, grew up in Alberta, and now makes his home in Toronto. He is the author of the solo shows miss chatelaine, Real Live Girl, and We Are Not Alone, and the plays Good Mother, Lucy, The Mill Part Four: Ash, The Gay Heritage Project (with Andrew Kushnir and Paul Dunn), and an adaptation of C.S. Lewis's Prince Caspian. He has been produced all across Canada and the US, including at both the Stratford and Shaw Festivals. Damien has been playwright-in-residence at Canadian Stage, Crow's Theatre, Factory Theatre, and Necessary Angel. He has received ten Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations for acting and writing, winning four. 

Awards
  • Winner, Prism/UBC Creative Writing Department Award
Editorial Reviews

"A powerful new play… in Good Mother Atkins has created something of great beauty." —John Coulbourn, Toronto Sun


"An astonishing work. A singularly accomplished piece… a clear-eyed examination of a group of ordinary people coping with the process of adjustment, of survival, of learning the necessity of moving on." —Jamie Portman, Southam Newspapers

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