In this thrilling drama, Sherry Lara plays a mother who is met with the challenge of convincing her daughter, played by Eugene Domingo, to stop her meticulously planned suicide. Is it a must-see or a hard pass? Read on to find out:
Suicide—it’s a topic that’s often scraped under the rug, tiptoed around, or avoided completely—but in Melvin Lee’s adaptation of the Pulitzer-prize winning Night, Mother, it takes centre stage. Upon entering the theatre, you are greeted by a hyper-realistic set design, shaped in the form of a stereotypical Filipino household seemingly cut in half. It’s as if the audience were mere neighbours peeping into the lives of the two lead characters: Thelma and Jessie.