Mother's Secret
Broken Record Productions - Winnipeg, MB
V.4 - CCFM - Salle Pauline-Boutal 
From the company that brought you 5 STARS (Winnipeg Free Press) The Auntie Show (2025), Agency (2024) and Neechies (2023), we are thrilled to bring Mother's Secret to the Fringe, a new twist on an old play by Anishinaabe playwright Jo MacDonald.
Mother's Secret introduces us to two daughters who conspire to move their elderly mother into an assisted living facility but discover that her past is full of mystery and intrigue.

  		Show Info:
60 Mins minutes
Genre:
Play-Comedy

Audience:
General

No warnings

Wed July 15 9:15 PM
Fri July 17 11:00 AM
Sat July 18 6:15 PM
Sun July 19 12:45 PM
Wed July 22 8:00 PM
Fri July 24 8:30 PM
Sun July 26 2:45 PM

Mother’s Secret

Broken Record Productions—CCFM – Salle Pauline-Boutal

I saw a couple of productions from Broken Record in the past and I always found them whacky, cute and silly, but fun. This year’s entry, Mother’s Secret, doesn’t seem as whacky or cute, but somewhat sillier, almost slapstick silly. I would like to see a bit more development in the plot and a tad less cheap-laugh kind of humour. There were giggles through the audience but not gut-busting roars. People enjoyed it—and so did I—but I didn’t come away wiping tears as I have in past.

The secret? It wasn’t a secret for very long, and it would have been fun to keep the audience guessing for at least a little bit. Having a working knowledge of Spanish, the calico came out of the sack very early for me, but it wasn’t far behind for anglophones.

Ray Yuen