My Mother’s Kitchen was a part of the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the First Pact of Friendship and Trade between Portugal and Thailand. It was premiered in 2018 in the Portuguese Ambassador’s residence. The play begins in the messy kitchen and dining room of Grandmother’s house with three generations of Thai women, two foreign men, and the secret recipe of a Portuguese-inspired Thai dessert.

The script was translated and published in three languages, Thai, English and Portuguese. The production was restaged three other times at Siam Pic-Ganesha Centre of Performing Arts, MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, and at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand in 2019. Each time it was restaged in different venues, it gave a new vibration and tone of the play.

Written by Jaturachai Srichanwanpen

Directed by Pattarasuda Anuman

Performed by Nalinee Sitasuwan, Parida Wongrabieb, Nualpanod Nat Khianpukdee, James Laver, Kevin Colleary

2019/2018

NUNi Productions