Oh, I know what they want.  They want me out of sight, shut away, like the rubbish.  They want me put in some poky cupboard somewhere, with all those other old biddies, dribbling into their soup and pissing themselves.  That’s what they want.

Mummy is frail and elderly but still has her marbles.  Surrounded by her quarrelsome children, as the family feud rages around her, Mummy sits tight, silent and inscrutable.  As long-harboured resentments surface and unsettling secrets are revealed, one question remains unanswered: will the family persuade Mummy to move to a care home?  Or does another, more sinister fate await her?

Unflinchingly honest and savagely funny, Keeping Mum puts the painful realities of family life centre stage.

Capital Theatre Company, a community-based theatre group, is delighted to be back at the Jack after an absence of several years with a bold new play. Keeping Mum is in the tradition of small cast, modern plays with which the company has been associated since its launch over thirty years ago.