Mum's the Word

Six women... six stories... one common thread... a hilarious and intimate look at motherhood

A smash hit on two continents, Mum's The Word is a tell-it-like-it-is comedy about the trials and tribulations of having children and the overwhelming effect they have on your life.

Every day I start out Mary Poppins but I end up Cruella DeVil

Mum's The Word is a production that hangs the dirty nappy laundry of maternity out to dry and brings both the laughter and tears of motherhood to the stage. Humorous, emotional, ecstatic and hysterical, Mum's The Word is a chorus line of confessional anecdotes and vignettes combined to create the mother of all comedies. Without the rose-coloured lens treatment, Mum's The Word is a hilarious, intimate look at motherhood. Six mums tell stories you have not heard before – stories too embarrassing, too personal to tell even their closest friends, but based on experiences all mothers share. It is group therapy like never before.

"Roars of delighted recognition" The Times

Mum's The Word is written by Linda A Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams.

Mum's the Word - 2007 Tour Dates:

Nottingham - Theatre Royal - Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 February 2007
Blackpool - Grand Theatre - Monday 12 to Saturday 17 February 2007
Hull - New Theatre - Monday 19 to Saturday 24 February 2007
Liverpool - Empire Theatre - Sunday 25 to Wednesday 28 February 2007
Woking - New Victoria Theatre - Monday 5 to Saturday 10 March 2007
Hayes - The Beck Theatre - Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 March 2007
Break Week - Monday 19 to Saturday 24 March 2007
Sunderland - Empire Theatre - Monday 26 to Saturday 31 March 2007
Poole - Lighthouse - Monday 2 to Saturday 7 April 2007
Break Week - Monday 9 to Saturday 14 April 2007
Southend - Palace Theatre - Monday 16 to Saturday 21 April 2007
Birmingham - Alexandra Theatre - Monday 23 to Saturday 28 April 2007
Billingham - Forum - Monday 30 April to Saturday 5 May 2007
Dundee - Whitehall - Monday 7 to Saturday 12 May 2007
Manchester - Palace Theatre - Monday 14 to Saturday 19 May 2007
Glasgow - Pavilion Theatre - Monday 21 to Monday 4 June 2007
High Wycombe - Swan - Monday 11 to Saturday 16 June 2007
Bromley - Churchill Theatre - Monday 18 to Saturday 23 June 2007
Bristol - Hippodrome Theatre - Monday 25 to Saturday 30 June 2007
Previous 2004 tour dates and venues:
Cast: Sarah White, Rebecca Wheatley, Kim Hartman, Maureen Nolan, Polly Highton and Julie T Wallace
Poole - The Lighthouse - Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 March 2004
Hayes - The Beck Theatre - Monday 22 and Tuesday 23 March 2004
Folkestone - Leas Cliff Hall - Wed 24 and Thu 25 March 2004
Torquay - The Princess Theatre - Saturday 27 March 2004
Wimbledon - New Wimbledon - Mon 29 March to Sat 3 April 2004
Felixstowe - Spa Pavilion - Monday 5 and Tuesday 6 April 2004
Oxford - The New Theatre - Thursday 8 to Saturday 19 April 2004
Manchester - Palace Theatre - Monday 12 to Saturday 17 April 2004
Bristol - Hippodrome Theatre - Monday 19 to Saturday 24 April 2004
Nottingham - Theatre Royal - Monday 3 to Saturday 8 May 2004
Jersey - Opera House Theatre - Monday 10 to Saturday 15 May 2004
Southend - Palace Theatre - Monday 17 to Saturday 22 May 2004
Liverpool - Empire Theatre - Monday 24 to Saturday 29 May 2004
Swindon - Wyvern Theatre - Monday 31 May to Saturday 4 June 2004
Truro - Hall for Cornwall - Monday 7 to Saturday 12 June 2004
Sheffield - Lyceum Theatre - Monday 14 to Saturday 19 June 2004
Bromley - Churchill Theatre - Monday 21 to Saturday 26 June 2004
Leeds - Grand Theatre - Monday 28 June to Saturday 3 July 2004
Brighton - Theatre Royal - Monday 5 to Saturday 10 July 2004
Milton Keynes - Milton Keynes Theatre - Mon 12 to Sat 17 July 2004

"A hilarious coup de theatre that you have to see for yourself"
The Daily Mail

It was the Spring of 1993 in Vancouver, Canada. Six women who had once been exciting, glamorous and professional actors were now exhausted, bedraggled amateur mothers with ten children under six between them. They decided to get together to write a show about motherhood. They had a slot in a Vancouver Festival called Women in View and so they had a deadline. They met regularly on Saturday mornings without their children. They talked, they laughed, they whined, they complained and they laughed some more. Suddenly their first performance was just three weeks away. Although they had nothing on paper, they felt enormously better about their children, their skills as mothers and their lives in general. Luckily, in the ancient tradition of oral history, they remembered each other’s stories and Mum's The Word was born.

"A beautifully crafted show, full of the warm, tragi-comic rhythm of life" The Scotsman

Now, over a decade and more than 2,500 performances later, Mum's The Word has crossed the international dateline and the Equator. Since its beginnings at The Melbourne Comedy Festival in 1998, the Australian version of Mum's The Word has enjoyed seasons all over Australia and has now been seen by over 400,000 people. In Canada the show's success included a sell-out season at Montreal's Just for Laughs Festival in 2001 and a two month season in Vancouver in May 2002. In America, two companies of Mum's the Word have brought the hilarity of motherhood to audiences in both Chicago and Minneapolis. The European premiere of Mum’s The Word starred Blythe Duff of Taggart fame took place in Spring 2002 - the show was such a huge success, selling out in advance at all venues, that the tour finished with a four week season at the King's Theatre in Glasgow. This was then followed in Autumn 2002 by an English tour, which starred Beveley Callard of Coronation Street. The following year Mum's the Word was presented in London's West End at The Albery Theatre (now Noel Coward Theatre) for a 2½ month season starring Patsy Palmer, Jenny Eclair, Carol Decker, Barbara Pollard, Cathy Tyson and Imogen Stubbs.