Mother Our Superwoman Play Analysis

By looking at the title, I guessed the play would revolve around Andre and his mother. I wonder, what is so special about the mother? What deeds she had done? Why she is not named? Is it because the culture is similar to our Malaysian society, we just called our friend’s mother by just saying ‘Emak ...... ye?’ when we do not know the name of the woman? However, in my circle of friends, usually we just call our friend’s mother Aunt if we do not know her name to show respect and intimacy. This is not the first time I encounter readings with mother as the theme as I did a lot of research while creating an 8 pages choral speaking entitled ‘Mother, our superwoman’. Frankly, by glancing at the title made me want to indulge into this play. The first

I get to visualize Andre’s mother without her speaking directly, with no words uttered by the mother. I could easily understand the mother’s position in this play where she is actually the one who shaped Andre’s behaviour and situation based on the words uttered by Cal. Her silence confirmed that she was still hardly able to let go of her loss. This is clearly shown in the final few lines ‘Andre’s Mother stands alone holding her white balloon.... She was about to let go of the balloon when she pulls it down. ......she gently kisses it. She lets go of the balloon... Andre’s Mother’s eyes are still on the balloon as it lightly

I cannot help but feel terrible knowing a fictional character who fear of his own family member due to his differences, that he slowly drift apart from them, not wanting to hurt anyone if they need to process the fact of his homosexuality. He chose to lose himself in ‘A city of fugitives from our parents’ scorn or heartbreak’. It saddens me because in reality, this is happening to our own community. I am not talking about homosexuality, but differences and pressures on the children that made a lot of youngsters fled to the city, leaving behind their old parents back home. Some children left and work far away from home because the modern ways of thinking do not match their parents’ conventional