Ubu Award 2019 – Second place in the category Best new text or dramatic writing
Written and directed entirely by Perrotta, In nome del padre was born from an intense exchange with psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati, who has dedicated much of his work to family relationships.
A father. One and three. Nothing transcendental: in the body of a single actor, three fathers very different from each other in terms of social class, geographical origin, working conditions. On stage we find them ridiculous, in full crisis in the face of the “most difficult job in the world”. The adolescent children are the disconnected interlocutors of as many failed dialogues, the common horizon of the three fathers who, by dint of banging their teeth against the same wall, find themselves naked, with broken lips, surrounded by silence. And perhaps it is precisely in silence that the children’s reasons will be able to find citizenship.
