Image: Edward Hopper’s New York Interior (c. 1921)
About the Play
A full-length play exploring themes such as grief, violence, and inter-generational trauma
through the blurry lens of memory, hushed family secrets, and the push-and-pull of
strained mother-daughter relationships — from the perspectives of three women of the same family.
A young woman navigates the loss of her unborn child while coping with the realisation that her marriage is broken beyond repair. A woman in therapy looks back on her childhood and tries to understand the patterns emerging in her romantic relationships, as these echo the fragile nature and violence of her parents’ relationship. A woman inching closer to certain death ruminates on youth, her aging body, and the many ways in which one loves, all through life.
Fraught with grief, violence, trauma, and existing within the rigid binds of patriarchy, these three lives collide across space and time. Looking at them with love, humour, and through the transience of memory, we ask one question – how much of who we are, as women, is the result of who our mothers were and who their mothers were?
This script is currently in talks for production.
Conceived & Written by Nikhita Singh