my mother’s funeral: the show

Following a sold out, critically-acclaimed, award-winning run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2024, My Mother’s Funeral: The Show by Kelly Jones comes to SoHo Playhouse for a limited run.

Abigail’s mum is dead. But it turns out she can’t afford her to be.

Did you know how expensive it is to die? £4000 for the funeral, extra for flowers. Even more for sausage rolls.

Then, when a theatre pulls out of Abigail’s new project, she is asked to write about something else. Something raw, from her ‘unique working-class lens.’ Yep. To afford the funeral, she has to write about her mum.

With power and playfulness, Kelly Jones’s new play tackles the inequalities around death, and the cost of turning your life into art.