Step into a world where unspoken truths meet unapologetic courage. Sugarcoated by Jen Ponton and The Longer My Mother is Dead the More I Like Her by Deborah Unger offer a powerful evening of theater that speaks to the heart of what it means to reclaim your voice, your truth and your power.
In Sugarcoated, Jen Ponton takes you on an intimate, immersive journey through the sweet façade women are forced to wear, only to reveal the raw, untamed humanity beneath. With sharp humor and aching vulnerability, this is a story of trauma, survival and the liberation that comes when you finally spit out the sugar.
Deborah Unger’s The Longer My Mother is Dead the More I Like Her dives into the bittersweet complexities of a mother-daughter relationship that doesn’t end with death. With wit and poignancy, Unger wrestles with the echoes of a mother’s voice—sometimes hectoring, sometimes haunting—as she reclaims her sense of self in the aftermath of a lifetime battle for love and understanding.
Both plays ask the question: How do you find your voice when the world—and even the people closest to you—demand you silence it? Together, these stories peel back layers of sweetness and suppression to reveal the raw power of women who refuse to shrink.
For anyone who has ever felt unseen, unheard or unworthy, this is your invitation to witness an evening of truth-telling, heart-mending and voice-liberating theater. It’s funny. It’s heartbreaking. It’s real. And it’s exactly what you need right now.
