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A riveting show crammed with the kind of risky gags rarely heard on stage these days

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Howard Webb, John Wark, Emma Davies, Peter Clements in How To Survive Your Mother at the King's Head Theatre. Image: Charles Flint Photography 
issue 09 November 2024
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  • How to Survive Your Mother

    King’s Head Theatre, in rep until 24 November

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    Hampstead Theatre, until 23 November

How To Survive Your Mother is a play based on a memoir by political dramatist Jonathan Maitland. He portrays himself in the show, and he muses on the wisdom of turning his manipulative, devious, sex-mad mother into a dramatic heroine. In the end, he’s swayed by ‘Edinburgh derangement syndrome’ as he calls it.

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