Father and Son, Son and Father - 2005 Production
Original production at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford 1996.
The Factory Space Theatre presents a passion play for Easter, Lent 2005.
Christians and non-Christians will be moved by this theatrical event.
In his directions, the playwright has requested that the text be presented by two men, dressed in ordinary contemporary costume, reading from their scripts. They present but do not impersonate the Father and the Son. As they read, they try to understand with the audience how that relationship may have been worked out. The script for them has the inexorability and the possibility of prophecy.
Boundy says that he is mainly concerned with exploring how the humanity of the Son – while without sin - necessarily involves doubt, uncertainty, fear, mistakes, weariness and the possibility of failure.
Like medieval passion plays it contains a number of humorous and imagined incidents as the author follows the biblical example of exploring divine truths through storytelling.