That’s Why Mums Go to Switzerland is an award-winning play that was winner: Best Solo Show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival. It was rated as an outstanding show by FringeReview in 2025. It is billed as “an exploration of assisted dying within modern family dynamics.”
“A middle-aged woman sheepishly turns to her recently bereaved mother: “We’ll move in with you, if you like” (Thinking she’ll refuse. She doesn’t). A raw, sharply funny look at a family in chaos. A marriage breakdown, teenage upheaval, dependency, love (“whatever that is”), a mother loudly preparing for the end, and “the joys of becoming a bad mother and a bad daughter at exactly the same time”.
Paul Levy spoke with the team behind the show, including writer and performer, Bonnie Oddie, in the queue at the Edinburgh Fringe Meet the Media event. This is dark comedy theatre, dealing with important, potentially uncomfortable material.
