The interest that I lately developed around ordinary domestic setting and mundane family stories first drove me to the direction of writing an original piece about an Irish working class man and his son. The Story of a Man is a play about a sick and desperate father, Edward, who is struggling with the fact of raising his adolescent and hopeless son, Michael. In the action of linking the play with an aspect of theatre theory, tradition or practice as an underpinning and basis for approaching the creation and rehearsal process, I discovered the British cultural movement that raised “Kitchen sink drama”. Being particularly drawn by the play A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, I decided to adapt some sections of the play regarding the tensions and conflict between a seventeen-years-old working class girl, Jo, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as crude and sexually indiscriminate.
My final product consist on dividing the stage into two, recreating two independent living rooms scenario, and having a parallelism in the narration of A Taste of Honey and A Story of a Man. Even though the setting might appear confusing and surreal, my main aim is to recreate a symbolic and naturalistic environment, mostly decorated by John Bratby’s expressionistic paintings. This new combination is therefore “Here we are.” and will explore social issues and strong themes.
By the end of the play, the audience will be expected to build a connection and empathize with the characters, their ordinary lives and their emotions.
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