Year
2017
Language
English

About

Here is a father who loves his daughter. You can tell from the way he held her when she was born after a difficult delivery; you can tell from the way he dances with her to her favourite songs; you can tell from the way he will do anything to protect her.
He's not going to apologise for every other little thing he's ever done. Who knows, you might have done them too...
Told with unsettling charm, Daughter is a darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love and toxic masculinity, by Canadian playwright and performer Adam Lazarus.
Daughter received its UK premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018, where it became one of the most talked about shows at the festival, before transferring to Battersea Arts Centre, London, in 2020.
This edition contains the complete text of the play alongside an introduction by the author and essays about the impact of the play and the issues it raises.

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Reviews

"'A sinister story of love and addiction that revisits age old themes whilst thrusting them into a dystopian digital future... thanks to Smith's cut to the chase dialogue, the horrors of what that could ultimately entail is are viscerally realised'"
Edinburgh Evening News
"'Haunting and prescient... Smith invests this world with a rare intensity... there is a solid emotional base to the piece; it has a real authenticity, while the encroaching technological nightmare rings horribly true'"
The Stage
"'A gripping two-hander, a piece of dystopian sci-fi in the manner of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror... takes our present-day unease about the intrusiveness of technology and pushes it a step into the future... a high-stakes, will-she-won't-she battle that keeps us on edge throughout'"
Guardian

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