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”A boy needs to challenge his father, a boy needs to defeat his father so the father can get old in peace, knowing the baton will be carried on, but a girl. With a girl you need to go on being a man until the day you die.”
The father-daughter relationship is full of tensions large and small, spoken and unspoken, which this play explores with sensitivity, humor, strength and above all love. We witness fathers and daughters travelling across Europe, heading towards an unknown destination. Some fathers are dead, some daughters never had the chance to be born. The unclear line between girlhood and womanhood is at times bewildering, frightening or captivating. The fathers are forced to look at their daughters in a new way, not knowing whether their relationships will ever be the same again. The girls must learn to become independent, to make it on their own, but at the same time, they can never completely escape their childhood and home.
”Your heart’s been broken and I’m supposed to take care of you by being all women and what do I do? Fall asleep and get off the map. Don’t you think that’s symbolic?”
The play has been translated into Swedish, German, French and Spanish.
