The Father Monologues,
Part 3 - Billy
“An evening with the side of your Dad you never knew”
Nominated Best Male Performer, Brighton Fringe 2007
“The best thing I have seen for a very long time"
Ingrid, Bristol
Billy is fighting his own quest: To find his own absent father.
Since his own mother is so tight-lipped, he tries to ‘remember everything’ for himself, by visiting Rajid, the regression therapist.
To afford Rajid’s fees, he fakes depression and enrols on the “Access to Healing” scheme, whereby a psychiatrist can refer him to an “approved alternative therapist.”
Jumping through all the wrong hoops, Billy gets stuck with Jimmy, the repressed shrink, whilst with Rajid he regresses further than planned to discover he was once Dr Benjamin Rush, controversial Father of American Psychiatry, Founding Father of the USA and Co-signer of the Declaration of Independence!
Discovering Dr Rush was a son-incarcerating sadist; that his own “family doctor” once lived up to his epithet more closely than previously suspected; that his shrink is living more of a lie than even HE knows; that his regression therapist has some past of his own, Billy finds that, just like Rush’s own son, he’s dangerously close to being on a fast track into the new Prince Regent psychiatric hospital, the walls of which he himself had once helped to build!
I enjoy your wit, exuberance, and prolific “flipping” (between characters)
I am in awe of your writing. Kirsty Hurd Thomas, Actor, mother, director.
The language is strong.
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“Billy”, is suitable for any event/training exploring issues such as:
· The rights of children to be given full and unhindered access to information about their father, even when he is estranged from them.
· The value of alternative therapies in healing issues which have their roots in childhood family conflicts.
· The usefulness of mental health diagnoses, including within family law cases.
· And more…
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Typical rates: £350 per performance.