Who Killed My Father

Directed by 
Surrogate Theatre Company
Venue 
Auditorium
Ticket prices 
£12 Full
*subject to booking fees (except at theatre box office)
May 2023 4 Thu 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm)
May 2023 5 Fri 7:30pm (doors: 6:30pm)

‘Confronts the role of rampant class inequality.’ - ★★★★ The Scotsman

‘Powerful staging of Édouard Louis’ devastating third book … [with] an honest, engaging solo performance.’ - ★★★★ The Stage

Following a sell-out debut, theatre company surrogate returns with Who Killed My Father. Growing up gay in a small town in France, Édouard endured the violence and homophobia of his alcoholic, right-wing father, a factory worker.

In 2000, his father suffered an accident in the workplace which left him bed-bound and on morphine for the pain. Now, Édouard confronts his father, uncovering a startling connection between political decisions and his father’s broken body. Édouard’s anger transforms to compassion as his father’s capacity for violence appears to be the product of years of social brutality. Louis sets about rewriting the recent social and political history of France, exposing how the consequences of neo-liberal ‘reforms’ inflicted on the lives of workers are lived out in their own bodies.

Who Killed My Father is an intimate declaration of love from son to father and a defiant call for social justice.

Supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland
Copyright for inclusion across all:
QUI A TUÉ MON PÈRE Copyright ã 2018, Édouard Louis All rights reserved WHO KILLED MY FATHER, by Édouard Louis, translated by Lorin Stein, copyright © 2018 by Édouard Louis, translation copyright © 2019 by Lorin Stein. Translation used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.