Family Matters

12th Ave Arts
1620 12th Ave. Seattle

Set in the backyard of the Horowitz-Yamasaki-Bloom family home, three generations of this Jewish-American-transracial family gather for their traditional Mother's Day celebration of bagels and lox and Korean potato salad. Nana, the matriarch, is struggling with Alzheimer's. Her adult daughters, Pearl and Lena, both adopted from Korea and with grown children of their own, find themselves at odds about their mother's care. Granddaughter Gracie unexpectedly invites her new boyfriend Antoine. Everyone arrives with secrets, and their revelations bring out their complicated hidden truths, while examining the myriad of expectations, responsibilities and roles that women face in every modern family. Enjoy the world premiere of this insightful, humorous and affecting new look at the ties and traditions that bind, when Family Matters comes to the stage of Seattle's 12th Ave Arts.