Theatre
The Father
The Kelvin Players’ February Production is The Father, translated by Christopher Hampton from the French original by Florian Zeller.
Andre is a man facing persecution from all sides, and he has had enough. First someone steals his watch. Then he suspects his daughter Anne of plotting to take his flat away. His favourite daughter Elise never seems to visit. And Anne’s husband, or lover, Pierre, with whom she is moving to London – or staying in Paris – threatens Andre with violence if he won’t cooperate.
And to top it all, strangers keep appearing in Andre’s flat, telling him they are his friends and family, telling him that it is not his flat. Whatever his age, Andre knows he is still a man of authority, and he will find a way to assert it. After all he still has all his faculties … hasn’t he?
In a darkly humorous and deeply poignant translation by Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller’s award-winning play is simultaneously a tragi-comic mystery, a sobering and realistic family story, and an unsentimental, emotionally intense look at the world through the eyes of a man experiencing dementia. It provides a dramatic illustration of the disintegration of an intelligent and independent man.
Feb 12-16, 7.30pm, £15 /£12 concs. For more info, visit www.kelvinplayers.co.uk/current-production
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