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How to make sense of an absence is the question troubling the unnamed woman in Gilly Campbellâs autobiographical play for Prime Cut Productions. Searching for traces of the father whose identity she never knew, Daughter (Abigail McGibbon) finds herself re-examining her life in her mid-40s.
âThe least you could do is haunt me,â she says, directly challenging the father she never met, and whom her mother never saw again once she became pregnant in the 1970s. Yet clearly she is haunted, and in her solo performance McGibbon captures the confusion, anger and sadness of Daughterâs search for answers. Growing up she used to tell people that, âlike Jesusâ, she didnât have a father. âGod was my father.â
Gilly Campbell play Father The Father a powerful tale of one woman s search for her birth father
New play Father The Father explores a daughter s search for her father 45 years after being conceived out of wedlock, and how society must address the legacies of the past. Jenny Lee finds out more from writer Gilly Campbell and actress Abigail McGibbon. Father The Father: Writer, Gilly Campbell and actor Abigail McGibbon
Gilly Campbell in rehearsal with Father The Father I FOUND you in my spit is just one of the many poignant lines in Father The Father, a new play from Prime Cut Production and Belfast s MAC theatre, which offers a fresh perspective on the ongoing discussion around unmarried mothers in Ireland.