Our son
Heartefact
It is about questioning the limits of acceptance and rejection. After a young man comes out to his parents, they try to live with the knowledge that their son is different. The rituals of the family lunch become a big dramatic twist. In this intimate and exploratory space for the young director and the author’s team, the theatrical framework is also overcome.
“The story begins like hundreds of other stories: a mother, a father and a son. For years, maybe forever, no one in that family knew how to say an honest word to anyone. Now the son has grown up, gone to live as far away as possible, and sometimes he visits them – after all he loves them and he needs them, and this time he hopes that honest words will come. Parents also love their son, and they would love him even more, if only they knew what the mistake was, what the reason was and who was to blame for the fact that their child is not “like the rest of the normal world”. Everything would be fine, but the only problem is that the son is already the same as the normal world. An intimate, honest, poetic, humorous, and at times tragic story about parents who deep down can’t find a way to accept the identity of their gay son, even though they think they have tried everything, they remain prisoners of conditional love, which is the only thing they are ready for. This project of Patrik Lazić’s, one of the most gifted directors of the younger generation, represents a serious artistic step forward – in a text that arises from reality, and where scenes from all our lives come together. The story begins like hundreds of other stories because that’s what it is and we are all a part of it.”
Biljana Srbljanović
Nota di regia:
“I consider my project “Our Son” to be an attempt to understand my sexuality. Playing with autobiographical elements and those of my family – on the edge of truth and fiction, I apply available psychological and “parapsychological theories” in an attempt to understand the sexual identity I live with today. Through an abundance of laughter, irony and jokes at our own expense, we provide viewers with an intimate theatrical experience in a non-traditional stage space, where they witness a fictitious meeting of mother, father and son. This is where accounts are settled and (un)healed wounds, (un)satisfied needs and fears are questioned. Why should you watch this? Maybe in my silences you can find all that is unspoken in your families, maybe in my dilemmas you can recognize your own red lines, and maybe in my honesty, you can question your own readiness for the new time that has already come.”
Patrik Lazić
Di Patrik Lazić
Con Dragana Varagić, Aleksandar Đinđić, Amar Ćorović
Producer Aleksandra Lozanović
Fotografia Milena Arsenić
Design Miroslav Živanov
- Spettacolo adatto a un pubblico maggiore di 14 anni
- Lo spettacolo presenta luci stroboscopiche, non adatte a un pubblico fotosensibile
A seguire non perdere
Lab Heartefact
27, 28 e 29 gennaio
dalle 10:00 alle 16:00
