Father the Father review – confronting a legacy of sh

Father the Father review – confronting a legacy of shame


Last modified on Sat 10 Apr 2021 05.27 EDT
How to make sense of an absence is the question troubling the unnamed woman in Gilly Campbell’s autobiographical play for Prime Cut Productions. Searching for traces of the father whose identity she never knew, Daughter (Abigail McGibbon) finds herself re-examining her life in her mid-40s.
“The least you could do is haunt me,” she says, directly challenging the father she never met, and whom her mother never saw again once she became pregnant in the 1970s. Yet clearly she is haunted, and in her solo performance McGibbon captures the confusion, anger and sadness of Daughter’s search for answers. Growing up she used to tell people that, “like Jesus”, she didn’t have a father. “God was my father.”

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