7:00 PM
“Some Things You Should Know About My Mom" is a multimedia performance by Gabriel Diamond about his mom Sandy Diamond, a well-known and loved Port Townsend calligrapher, poet, performer, and playwright.
It’s full of Jewish Mom jokes, what it was like being a troublemaker teen growing up with a bipolar, hunchback, single artist mom, how he helped her die, burying her with his bare hands, all the regrets, and now, what it's like raising a teen of his own. And there’s dancing.
It started off as the eulogy Gabriel shared in 2016 at Sandy’s memorial, which was adapted into a play “Memorial” by Tamar Halpern. After 8 different actors played Gabriel in various productions, Gabriel was invited to perform himself with the Roots and Wings Project in Los Angeles in 2021 and just completed three sold out shows at the San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival. Now he’s coming back to Sandy’s home town Port Townsend for one performance only. All ticket sales go directly to support Key City Public Theater, Sandy’s favorite theater company.
The show is 70 minutes with no intermission.
At the end of the show, each audience member will be gifted a limited edition print of one of Sandy’s pieces of calligraphy.
Recommended for Ages 11+
