Mamma Decemba
By Nigel Moffatt
Year staged: 1985
Opening night: 14/11/1985
Theatre Company: Temba Theatre Company; 1972
Staged in: Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Cast Size: 3
Synopsis
Mamma Decemba is a bittersweet play about an older Jamaican woman living in England who finds herself widowed, jobless, and deserted by her children. Her attempts to cope involving hauntingly honest, sometimes humorous and often painful reflections on her past, raising larger questions for all of us about the nature of life-long relationships.
Original Cast
Claire Benedict
Mertel
Bill Glasgow
John
Elizabeth Clarke
Mamma Decemba
Claire Benedict
Mertel
Bill Glasgow
John
Elizabeth Clarke
Mamma Decemba
Production Team
Alby James
Director
Paul Armstrong
Lighting
Clarinda Salandy
Designer
Alby James
Director
Paul Armstrong
Lighting
Clarinda Salandy
Designer
Additional Materials
Link to Photographs
Photographs
Ref: THM/77/6/21
V&A Theatre and Performance Collection
Link to Production Photographs
Production Photographs
Ref: THM/77/6/11
V&A Theatre and Performance Collection
Poster
Ref: BCA/Ephemera/79
Black Cultural Archives