Earlier last week Steve Markwick reported on a production of THE RISE AND FALL OF LITTLE VOICE starring a real-life mum and daughter combo. So, just for fun, here’s a quiz on other theatre families. Answers below.
- What fictional father compares having a “thankless child” to a snake bite?
- Which real-life grandfather and grandson recently appeared in a West End production of an Oscar Wilde play?
- West End ventriloquist Nina Conti has a famous dad who’s appeared in TV’s Friends. What’s his name?
- Which landmark gay play trilogy features a blistering mum and son row as its last act?
- Which musical theatre heroine becomes a mother to a pack of Austrian kids?
- Actress Finty Williams is about to star in thriller Pack of Lies at the Menier Chocolate Factory, name her famous mum?
- Which multi-award winning hit Broadway musical centres around a bi-polar mom?
- Who is Laura’s mum in Tennessee William’s classic play The Glass Menagerie?
- How many men might be Sophie’s father at the start of ABBA’s Mamma Mia.
- Which famous auntie is the title character in a classic Jerry Herman musical?
- King Lear
- Freddie and Edward Fox
- Tom Conti
- Torch Song Trilogy
- Maria in the Sound of Music
- Judy Dench
- Next to Normal
- Amanda
- Three
- Auntie Mame
