English Version: May-Brit Akerholt
Director: Joseph Uchitel
Producer: Sam Hawker
Set and Costume Designer: Karla Urizar
Lighting Designer: Stephen Hawker
Composer: Max Lyandvert
Cast: Vanessa Downing, Tamblyn Lord
2003









Jon Fosse has written... a poetic and skillful drama of subtexts and gasps... May-Brit Akerholt’s translation... works subtly with the rhythms and vocabulary of Australian English inside a very spare and poetic structure... Lord is excellent... Downing is superb... Joseph Uchitel directs simply, keeping a tight control on the special relations and even tighter grasp on the subtlety.
Stephen Dunne, The Sydney Morning Herald
... a taut production by Joseph Uchitel for the East Coast Theatre Company, with two fine actors, Vanessa Downing and Tamblyn Lord, in a vivid translation by May-Brit Akerholt. We need more of the non-English repertoire in this country.
John McCallum, The Australian
It was one of the best things I've seen in Sydney for a long time..
Michael Gow
Mother and Child by Jon Fosse
at Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre