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One Woman Show: My Mother's Hand, and Other Things That Burn
one woman's journey from an abusive childhood to forgiveness, acceptance and love.
My Mother’s Hand is an unconventional tale of growing up, coming out, finding love and loving life. It will tug at your heartstrings and tickle your funny bone. It is, in essence, performance poetry; poetry and song that convey their meaning and power through spoken presentation. The poems are not necessarily connected but as a whole have a cohesiveness and flow. Like the threads of a tapestry they hold their color as individual strands but when woven together create a beautiful vision. They tell of a journey, which is simultaneously heard and felt by the audience. Its delivery is simple yet dynamic, indelibly marking its audience with a sense of beauty, joy and pride; leaving one with a taste of transformation, a knowledge of victory and an appreciation for moving toward the heart of things.
REVIEWS
by Biff America
Poet Jamie Cotton shared, in beautiful yet sometimes painful prose, her life to date with a packed theater at Colorado Mountain College. 'My Mother's Hand and Other Things That Burn' offered those attending a fly on the wall perspective of one woman's journey from abuse to love. Little was held back as Ms Cotton shared the pains of dysfunction, as well as, the carnal delights of sexual abandonment. Dressed simply, shoeless, in a tight black dress, while moving catlike across an unadorned stage, the performance was both candid and unrepentant. When put in perspective, the artist's life: grief, growth, understanding, forgiveness, and finally-love, leaves one with the impression that the pilgrimage was worth the pain. However, reliving the passage with Ms Cotton seemed to scratch the scabs of passions of those attending. Was the happy ending worth the suffering endured to get to that stage? Only Jamie Cotton can answer that question. Was the currency and emotions of those attending in order to take the vicarious journey with Ms Cotton well spent? Absolutely.
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