Can Any Mother Help Me?

Past productions

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Devised from best-selling Jenna Bailey’s book of the same name, Foursight Theatre’s current touring show looks at the impact of the Cooperative Correspondence Club.

The club was formed in the late thirties, after an Irish housewife wrote a heartfelt letter to Nursery World magazine. Her opening sentence provides the play’s title. She was lonely and desperately unfulfilled. Many women responded to her plea and the CCC came into being with the circulation of a private, hand-stitched magazine of collected letters.

Foursight’s staging uses live music, film and a soundtrack. Seemingly ordinary lives are traced through the letters and they become far from ordinary. There is deep emotional insight, stark incident, lively humour and a growing sense of the value of the magazine. The dialogue is clear and immediate and the acting has a moving integrity.

Foursight’s physical style is free flowing, with dynamic group movement and a level of creativity rarely seen in adult shows.

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