Cheryl May Coward-Walker’s The Wedding Speech comes to VAULT Festival 2023

Cheryl May Coward-Walker’s The Wedding Speech comes to VAULT Festival this February.

Purple Moon Drama will present the show at Network Theatre from 21 – 24 February 2023.

A poignant one-woman show highlighting the unpredictable nature of co-dependency amongst families, The Wedding Speech follows Rosemary on her journey of self-discovery, as she looks inward to navigate her rocky relationship not only with her mother, but herself.

Rosemary is preparing to do a speech at her mother’s wedding and is trying to decide what to say, as her relationship with her mother has been a little less than rosy. Rosemary yearns for emotional connection but shuns it at the same time after years of a co-dependent and toxic relationship with her mother that is taking a long time to unpick.

But Rosemary will have to leave her hiding spot eventually to give her speech; she’ll have to decide whether to take the high road – or have the last word.

Writer Cheryl May Coward-Walker said: “This is the mother and daughter relationship we’re sold from sitcoms to romcoms, and more often than not by our nearest and dearest, but what happens if your maternal bond doesn’t fit the “my mum is my BFF” mould? The Wedding Speech is an amusing take on a less-than-rosy mother and daughter relationship.

“The work involved in this isn’t easy, but it has the power to heal entire generations. To reduce this conversation to indulgent mum-bashing is to rob people of their healing. Healing gives us options. It’s empowering to know that you get to choose a better way of being. Nothing is fixed. You can cultivate the freedom to be all of you.”

For more information and tickets, visit vaultfestival.com