Father
by FRANCESCA BARTELLINI
directed by SUSAN WORSOLD
The style of the comedy is influenced by an ironic Pinterian desperation
Father is an intimate work with mythic scope, where the personal experiences of child and parent are reflected in our wider relationship with Mother Nature and the evolution of our climate. A relationship of use, abuse and love. Father is a one-woman show about incest based on a true story of sexual abuse perpetrated by a father on his daughter. Onstage, a middle-aged woman reveals a terrible secret to her daughter, which only emerges when her daughter grows into a young woman. The truth unfolds little by little: on stage her mother is also her daughter and the father’s voice remains off stage. But the father is her secret…The truth is gradually explained: on stage the mother is also her daughter and the father’s voice remains off stage.
But the father is his secret…
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Three “presences” interconnected by abuses at different levels
Three “presences” because three lives are interconnected by abuse at different levels, but only one physical presence on stage. The father is also a well-known meteorologist who is aware of climate change. He wants to save the Earth: he believes that man is the cause of the disaster, therefore man should be the solution. He is lost in his own delusion because he was the first to commit a crime after abusing his own daughter. Thus, a multitude of narratives gives the play a strong metaphorical meaning. The style of the comedy is influenced by an ironic Pinterian desperation.
The father is also a well-known meteorologist who is aware of climate change. He wants to save the Earth: he believes that man is the cause of the disaster, therefore man should be the solution.
He is lost in his own delusion because he was the first to commit a crime after abusing his own daughter.
Thus, a multitude of narratives gives the play a strong metaphorical meaning.
The style of the comedy is influenced by an ironic Pinterian desperation.
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