BATH — Maine author and Bath native Elizabeth Peavey brings her one-woman show, “My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother,” to the Chocolate Church Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Peavey performs “My Mother’s Clothes” as a series of connected monologues as she confronts the following: Losing a parent is difficult enough. Losing your final parent presents an additional challenge: What are you supposed to do with all your family’s stuff ?
For months, she avoided wading through her late mother’s things. But when her mom’s condo sells, she’s forced to reckon with its contents. As she does, objects surface, triggering memories from her childhood in Bath, including visits to Mr. Louis’ Coiffures, Hallet’s Drug Store, Senter’s department store and the dreaded Mammoth Mart.
Possessions she once thought would be easy to chuck — the Polynesian hors d’oeuvres platter from the Value House, the outdated coat from Bernie’s Fashions, the Christmas ornament from the church fair suddenly take on epic stature, forcing the question: How do we know when to let go?
Peavey is the author of “Outta My Way: An Odd Life Lived Loudly” and of “Maine & Me: 10 Years of Down East Adventures,” which received the Maine Literary Award for Best Maine-themed Book. Her latest book, “Glorious Slow Going: Maine Stories of Art, Friendship and Adventure,” a collaboration with renowned Maine landscape painter Marguerite Robichaux, has just been released.
Tickets for “My Mother’s Clothes” cost $12 and are available by calling 442-8455 or online at www.chocolatechurcharts.org.
The Chocolate Church Arts Center is located at 804 Washington St.
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