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2002 Tour
2 0 0 2 T O U R
The Autumn 2002 tour starred Beverley Callard, Julia Watson, Tina Malone, Polly Highton, Carole Anders and Anna Healy.
T H E B I R T H
It was the Spring of 1993 in Vancouver, Canada. Six women who had once been exciting, glamorous and professional actors were now exhausted, bedraggled amateur mothers with ten children under six between them. They decided to get together to write a show about motherhood.
They met regularly on Saturday mornings with their children. They talked, they laughed, they whined, they complained and they laughed some more. Suddenly their first performance was just three weeks away. Although they had nothing on paper, they felt enormously better about their children, their skills as mothers and their lives in general. They had reinvented group therapy. Luckily, in the ancient tradition of oral history, they remembered each other’s stories and Mum’s the Word was born.
Many years and more than ten thousand performances later, Mum’s the Word has crossed the international dateline and the equator.
R E V I E W S
“Very, very good, very funny.”
Billy Connolly
“roars of delighted recognition”
The London Times
“a hugely entertaining phenomenon”
The Daily Mail
“Wickedly funny account of motherhood that nobody should miss.”
The Stage
“hilarious”
The List Magazine
“Mum’s The Word is a no-holds barred laugh-a-minute outpouring of all it is to be a mother.”
The Evening Chronicle, Newcastle
“It made you laugh, it made you cry. It was a beautifully crafted comedy that made you proud to be a mum,”
The Kent Messenger
“Mum’s The Word is a beautifully crafted show, full of the warm, tragic-comic rhythm of life; and absolutely impossible to dislike.”
The Scotsman
What the international critics said:
“hysterical, possibly shocking, definitely moving”
Chicago Footlights, USA
“absolutely hilarious; a must-see for everyone”
Kane County Chronicle, Chicago, USA
“an insightful joy”
Addison Press, Chicago, USA
“Mums bundles up huge laughs… a comedic triumph”
Victoria News, Canada
“Get ready for the screams, laughter, tears and gasps of recognition”
Vancouver Sun, Canada
“funny and brilliantly executed…a theatrical first”
Vancouver Sun, Canada
“The mother of all shows! is a great night out – away from the kids”
The Herald Sun, Australia
“…your face will hurt from laughing at the brutal reality of ”
Sunday Herald Sun, Australia
What the critics said about the 2002 Scottish tour:
“roars of delighted recognition”
The London Times
“a hilarious coup de theatre that you have to see for yourself”
Daily Mail
“A blisteringly funny and perceptive piece of theatre”
The Stage
“ is a beautifully crafted show, full of the warm, tragi-comic rhythm of life; and absolutely impossible to dislike.”
The Scotsman
“moves along at a cracking pace”
The Herald
“as sharp and hilariously funny as you are ever likely to get”
Perthshire Advertiser
“hilarious”
The List Magazine
What the critics said about the 2002 English tour:
“It’s a show that should be sponsored by the NHS.”
The Mail on Sunday
“…wickedly funny account of motherhood that nobody should miss”
The Stage
“It made you laugh, it made you cry. It was a beautifully crafted comedy that made you proud to be a mum.”
The Kent Messenger
“mercilessly funny, with line after line of poignant humour and full on belly laughs”
The Sentinel, Stoke-on-Trent
“great comedy with the six actresses going all out for – and collecting – big laughs”
The Daily Post, Liverpool
“the audience howled with delight and nodded their understanding”
The Walsall Observer
“mixing hilarious comedy with emotive, moving drama”
Sutton Coldfield News
What the critics said about the 2003 Scottish tour:
“a hugely entertaining phenomenon”
The Scottish Daily Mail
“ is a no-holds-barred laugh-a-minute outpouring of all it is to be a mother”
The Evening Chronicle, Newcastle
“It’s back – this side-splittingly funny collection of stories about motherhood”
The Evening Times, Glasgow
“providing one of the funniest and most enjoyable girls’ nights out currently on offer in Britain”
The Scotsman
“a comedy that at least 50% of the population will see as a small miracle”
The Northern Echo
“many of the speeches and one-liners are hilarious”
The Inverness Courier
“this whole show was a delight of humour and pathos”
The Nairnshire Telegraph
“great shared moment of recognition when the audience suddenly erupts with laughter”
The Highland News
P A S T S H O W S
T O U R D A T E S
Mums The Word 2002
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Tuesday 3 September to Saturday 7 September 2002
Opera House, Manchester
Monday 9 September to Saturday 21 September 2002
Hexagon, Reading
Monday 23 September to Saturday 28 September 2002
Empire Theatre, Liverpool
Monday 30 September to Saturday 5 October 2002
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham
Monday 7 October to Saturday 19 October 2002
Leas Cliff Hall, Folkestone
Monday 21 October 2002
Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe
Tuesday 22 October 2002
Princess Theatre, Torquay
Friday 25 October and Saturday 26 October 2002
Orchard Theatre, Dartford
Monday 28 October to Saturday 2 November 2002
Grand Opera House, York
Monday 4 November to Saturday 9 November 2002