Clarke Reader: Of Mothers and Daughters at Town Hall Arts Center
Relationships between mothers and daughters are frequently explored in fiction for a reason — these relationships are often dynamic and complex, raising all kinds of questions about how people connect to each other and find common ground.This familial relationship goes under the microscope in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman’s “’night, Mother,” which runs at the Town Hall Arts Center, 2450 Main St. in Littleton, through Sunday, March 9. The production is part of the Center’s Limited Engagement Series and performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. on Sunday.According to provided information, the show focuses on one night in the lives Thelma Cates (Billie McBride) and her daughter, Jessie (Megan Van De Hey), as they struggle to make a critical and irreversible decision.“It’s a gladiator fight between a mother and a daughter. A force of wills,” said director Joye Cook-Levy in an email interview. “A question of autonomy. ‘Where do I start, and you end?’ ‘Are we our mothers, or are we ourselves?’”By using only two actors, the show allows these two powerhouse performers to stretch their creative muscles and work together to find the truth and humanity in each character.“It’s not often that I get to be onstage with the likes of a Billie McBride, and discovering this piece together has been so enlightening,” Van De Hey wrote in an email interview. “It’s a marathon as an actor and we leave every night, spent but excited to come back the next night and see what we find throughout this rehearsal process. I feel so lucky to get to work on a piece that’s so rich and heavy with meaning.”It rare that audiences are treated to a story that is so relationship-driven and for the actors it was a challenge to which they had to fully commit. Each woman has her own reasons for her choices and by the end of the play, audiences will better understand who the characters are and their decisions.“By the end of the play, these two women have learned and know more about each other, than they did in their entire lives together,” McBride wrote in an email interview. “It’s funny and sad, but it opens a door to an amazing kind of discovery.”The characters aren’t the only ones who have been transformed by the end of “’night, Mother.’” The hope is that audiences will go on their own journey as the story unfolds and they get a window into each woman.“What you leave with is a transformational, cathartic experience as an audience member,” Cook-Levy wrote. “You are choosing to have a soul-whispering, emotional journey. And we need those experiences in our all-too-disconnected way of living these days. This play is like going to a gym for your soul.”More information and tickets are available at www.TownHallArtsCenter.org.A Fabricated Reality at RRCCAs part of Month of Photography Denver, the ART Gallery at Red Rocks Community College, 13300 W. 6th Ave. in Lakewood, is hosting “Fabrications,” a solo exhibition by lens-based installation artist, Melanie Walker.The show runs through Wednesday, March 26, and features immersive installations that are both beautiful and unsettling. According to provided information, Walker uses photography in ways that push the boundaries of the form and create works that will take the viewer to a new place.Find more information at https://denvermop.org.Celebrate the Beginnings of Spring with the Highlands Ranch Community AssociationSpring is just on the horizon and the Highlands Ranch Community Association Spring Bazaar is welcoming the season with the opportunity to purchase some unique items.The bazaar is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, at the Eastridge Recreation Center, 9568 University Blvd. The free event will feature more than 100 vendors displaying and selling unique and high-quality products, such as photography, sculpture, specialty foods and more.The bazaar is the perfect opportunity to find just the right decorations for the warm months, so don’t miss it. Information is available at https://hrcaonline.org/Events/Details/spring-bazaar.Clarke’s Concert of the Week — Joy Oladokun at Summit Music HallArizona’s Joy Oladokun is a singer/songwriter in the style of artists like Tracy Chapman and Chris Stapleton — she has such a distinctive pen and vocal approach that you instantly recognize it when their music comes on. Over the course of their albums, including last year’s “Observations from a Crowded Room,” they’ve cultivated a dedicated fan base that includes peers like Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton and Noah Kahan.In support of the album, Oladokun is coming to Summit Music Hall, 1902 Blake St. in Denver, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 1. They’ll be joined by singer/songwriter Luke Tyler Shelton for what is sure to be an uplifting night of music. Buy tickets at www.livenation.com.Clarke Reader’s column on culture appears on a weekly basis. 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