The final show of SUDS summer season.
March 3, 2021
With a set made to look like a funeral parlour and a cast and band made to dress in all-black funeral clothing, it’s a bit difficult to imagine what a show titled
My Mum Died and I Wanna Sing About It will be like. I most certainly hadn’t prepared myself for a night of dazzling cabaret and a rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Not that these are bad things, quite the contrary.
I’m of the opinion that
My Mum Died would not have worked nearly as well as it did were it not for its sole star, who was also writer and director. Jack Francis West commanded the stage and audience with a black hole-like charisma that draws you in from the word go. His perfectly cultivated persona was the ideal mix of self-confident, self-depreciative, and most importantly, profoundly authentic.