Play synopsis
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…
Balancing humour and horror, Daughter is a darkly satirical monologue about fatherhood, love, and toxic masculinity. Told with unsettling charm, this story interrogates questions of culpability and complicity in our society. It examines the subtle and not-so-subtle ways we condone and encourage misogyny.
Welcome to Daughter: a show that exposes the hypocrisies and complexities of the human experience.
Who are you?
Alexandra Rizkallah is an Emerging Award-Winning Theatre Director culminating her MFA in Theatre Directing with this production of DAUGHTER by Adam Lazarus. Alexandra strives to create theatre which encompasses diversity in all forms to present stories which gather communities, provoke conversations, and foster empathy. She has trained and worked across Canada, England, France and Poland.CAST:
The Father: Cristiano Benfenati
CREATIVE TEAM:
Director: Alexandra Rizkallah
Playwright: Adam Lazarus
Assistant Director: Sasha Tzu-Yin Hsu
Designer: Dan Southwell
Intimacy Director: Liz Kent
Stage Manager: Jade Ayres
Wardrobe Supervisor: Emily Dolan
Original Composition: Richard Feren
Sound Supervisor: Jake Wakstein
Production Manager: Matthew Thursfield
why did you chose daughter?
"Daughter is a brilliant piece of writing that forces the audience to continually decide how they feel about what is unfolding in front of them. It provokes profoundly difficult questions about what we accept and are complicit to in our lives, while also being incredibly funny. This balance of humour and unraveling of misogyny makes it a really sneaky piece that drops like a hammer once it gets going. I'm very interested in the audience's experience, from the moment they walk into the theatre to after they have gone, and this play will really challenge and involve the spectator. It's unlike anything I've read, and it does scare me a little! But it means we've chosen the right challenge and I'm looking forward to getting to dive into it." -Alexandra Rizkallah
