Meg De Young

The Conversations We Have is a collaboration with my mother that explores how the mother-daughter relationship is socially constructed. The work uses collaborative theatre as a way to destabilise patriarchal narratives related to mother-daughter intimacy, mother-blame, matrophobia (the fear of turning into one’s own mother) and motherhood as a social construct. By subverting these narratives with our bodies in domestic space we explore the patriarchal construction of the mother-daughter relationship. Through this process of collaboration and performance, I critique and deconstruct these narratives to reclaim our relationship in its own image.