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Dara gets the call that her mom is dying while studying abroad in Australia, and their already complicated mother-daughter relationship suddenly becomes a lot more complicated. On a winding path full of humor, absurdity, and connection, Dara faces the impossible question: How to make amends with a dead mom? What she discovers is deeply personal, universal, and surprisingly hopeful. Just because someone is gone, it doesn’t mean you can’t heal your relationship with them.

Homecoming, by Moth StorySLAM winner Dara Kosberg, is a dark comedy about grief and identity that follows Dara’s journey of losing a parent and finding herself.

So please, laugh, cry, or just sit there silently questioning your own life choices, which hopefully don’t involve a ridiculous number of hamburgers, like Dara’s.

Now directed by David Ford, with original direction by Iris Bahr (NYC debut) and David Crabb (LA debut).

Dara Kosberg is a storyteller, comedian, writer, and actor. She recently debuted her solo storytelling show “Homecoming” to multiple sold-out audiences at NYC’s Under St. Mark and LA’s Lyric Hyperion, as well as in Chicago and Atlanta. She’s a Moth StorySlam winner and has performed at San Francisco’s Punch Line Comedy Club and Brooklyn’s Union Hall. As part of the Reimagine End of Life arts festival in SF and NYC, she’s produced and performed in comedy shows about grief and loss that demonstrate the healing power of humor. She’s a Founding Team Member of both Reimagine and The Dinner Party, two innovative organizations working in the grief space.

Director David Ford has been collaborating on new and unusual theatre for three decades and has been an artist-in-residence at The Marsh Theater for most of that time. His award-winning solo shows have been seen all over the English-speaking world. The San Francisco press has variously called him “the solo performer maven”, “the monologue maestro”, “the dean of solo performance”, and “the solo performer’s best friend” and a week rarely goes by when residents of the Bay Area can not enjoy one of his productions. Collaborators include Geoff Hoyle, Brian Copeland, Lorri Holt, Charlie Varon, Echo Brown, Tom Ammiano, Firoozeh Dumas, Marilyn Pittman, Rebecca Fisher, Wayne Harris, Irma Herrer, Bill Talen, and Marga Gomez.