The Conversations We Have

‘The Conversations We Have’ is a collaboration with my mother that explores how the mother/daughter relationship is a socially constructed idea.

‘The Conversations We Have’ is a collaboration with my mother that explores how the mother/daughter relationship is a socially constructed idea. The work uses collaborative theatre as a way to destabilise patriarchal narratives related to mother-daughter intimacy, mother-blame, matrophobia (the fear of turning into one’s own mother) and motherhood as a social construct. By subverting these narratives with our bodies in the domestic space, we explore the patriarchal construction of the mother-daughter relationship. Through this process of collaboration and performance, I critique and deconstruct these narratives to reclaim our relationship in its own image. ‘The Conversations We Have’ is the process of dialogue between my mother and I, as we take back the narrative that is our own.