Who is your father?   Do you love him?  Is he gay?  Black? White? Muslim? Is he a pervert? Is he high status? A criminal? Insane? Is he a terrorist? A president? What’s he afraid of? What does he fight for?  Do you blame him for everything?  Does he have feelings?  Who are his heroes? Did his dad love him? Did he ever read to you?  Does he cry? Did he ever hold you? Is he proud to be a father?

        Can he change?

        Can you?
In recent years, some fathers have been making the headlines in bids to improve their access-rights to their children.The laws surrounding custody have been in question recently, especially concerning the assumption that mothers are the natural parent. Fighting these laws and assumptions head-on or via headline-grabbing stunts has been the apparent aim of certain groups.

But what if the dressing up was taken... a tad further?

And done with just a little more...  art?



What if the father says... "I AM the mother" ?



Part 2: Jenny

Find your borrowers card to join our next dad, a full-blooded librarian, playing family court judges and illiterate lovers to find honour and realistic literary heroes in a world gone large print and trash-romance mad. Dubious sanity, uncertain identity intertwine with wit, humour, rage… and love.
Jenny's a Brightonian 40-something librarian.
Lacking much of a love life herself, and having split up with her ex, she watches people use the library to enhance their fantasy love lives or develop their internet relationships. Then she meets young Billy, starts a physical relationship, helps him with his “reading".
Under the jolly exterior we begin to see that this mixed-up person is fighting with the blackest parts of her soul, and not always winning, either the fight, or our sympathy.
But Jenny is …"unusual", and is fighting a legal battle for access to her own child, Timothy.
She's also unusual in that she enjoys her child as a person, and has the courage to neither cling to him to fulfill an otherwise empty identity of parenthood, or use him as a hate-weapon against her ex.
Despite being denied access by the courts, with the help of falling youth library-attendance figures, Jenny turns to her ability to take on any personality she chooses to engineer an innocent encounter with her son, to tell him what lies in her heart.
The ingenious plan that requires even more wit than even she had expected to employ, enables a veritable host of new and surprising relationships to open up for her. Not least… with herself.

The language is strong, suitable for 12's  and over, accompanied by an adult. You can any part, any two or all three plays. How to Buy Tickets