An emotionally abusive woman who sent her son to boarding school when he was three and was entirely neglectful to her offspring, there is no doubting that her behaviour has had a huge impact on Jonathan’s life.

It led him to write the 2006 memoir How to Survive Your Mother — and now he has bought the book to life with a play of the same name.

The play will debut on October 23 at the King’s Head Theatre, in London, and will run until November 24.

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