Audio By Carbonatix
Keep Phoenix New Times Free
We’re aiming to raise $10,000 by April 26. Your support ensures New Times can continue watching out for you and our community. No paywall. Always accessible. Daily online and weekly in print.
It’s unfortunate that Ellen Snortland’s Now That She’s Gone: Unraveling the Mystery of My Mother is so often compared to the work of Lily Tomlin and Garrison Keillor — not because those folks have been working at writing and performing for decades longer than Snortland, but because Snortland’s piece is written from an everywoman’s perspective. Everyone has a mother is the message of Snortland’s one-woman show, which allows us to find the commonalities of momism in stories of how she and her Norwegian-American mother never really hit it off.
Now That She’s Gone offers the universal shtick of a mother-daughter relationship while also recounting oft-trodden moments in time (the play uses as its backdrop the American feminist movement of the 1970s and ’80s) and the by-now-familiar personal crises (Snortland was once a drug addict).
Sat., Feb. 13, 2 & 7:30 p.m.; Fri., March 12, 7:30 p.m., 2010
