Review: Mother Nature

Seattle actor Bhama Roget has appeared in Grey’s Anatomy and narrated books on Audible in the past, but here we find her covered in flower tattoos, auburn hair flowing and crowned with a few nesting birds. Roget plays Mother Nature, a ‘cool mom’ who has come to ‘soothe the ennui of homo sapiens’. Her sci-fi rock opera features comedy numbers performed on a mini electric guitar; we learn about the dinosaurs and their lusty ‘big D energy’ and meet some extra-terrestrials with dark family secrets. 

Fun blasts of Depeche Mode, Guns N Roses, REM, Queen and David Bowie lift the energy at points where Mother Nature’s children might be drifting off slightly from the life lessons. Feminist asides are also sprinkled in for good measure – Mother Nature knows the woes of being in a leadership role and sings about it in her savvy, hippie, caring manner, pretending to be ‘three drinks in’ and really wanting to be liked by her kids. 

While some surreal flights of fancy go a bit off track, the themes of regeneration and natural cycles are examined in an interesting way, not quite healing all the ills of Planet Earth, but at least distracting us from them for 50 minutes.