Some Other Mother

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'...Like the albatross, we need a safe place we can be. But somewhere we're together, my Mama and my me...' High up in a Glasgow tower block, ten-year-old Star and her mother await the outcome of their claim for asylum. As Mamas mind fragments under the pressure of their unknown future, Star constructs a poetic and fantastical world of her own. Some Other Mother is a story of loss and survival, which explores the traumatising impact of the asylum system, regardless of the outcome.

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The emotional impact is shattering and beautifully conveyed. * Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman *
Playwright A J Taudevin has created a politically engaged play with sparks of comedy in its fantasy backdrop. * Exeunt Magazine *
Some Other Mother stands out... in Taudevin's interest in the psychological wounds inflicted by the immigration system * Guardian *
No tub-thumping piece of agit-prop. Rather, the piece could be said to embody that evergreen feminist rallying cry, "the personal is political" * The Times *

Author Bio

AJ Taudevin is a writer whose credits include Chalk Farm, Demons, The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Show with Oran Mor, UNtruth (Traverse) and The YelloWing (Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival). She is currently on a year-long attachment with the Traverse Theatre as part of the Traverse Fifty. She won the Playwrights Studio Scotland New Writers Award in 2010 and with their support wrote Some Other Mother.