My Child

My Child throws us into a violent world where good intentions count for very litle, and ofers an incisive, honest look at what it means to be a good parent. Mike Bartlet has been hailed by The Stage as “one of the most exciting new talents to emerge in recent times. In Nenni Delmestre’s production, these characters emerge out of the audience and are thrown into-our-face as we watch our own life experiences develop before our eyes. A mother denies her ex-husband access to their nine-year-old son when he brings the boy back from a parental outing with a damaged arm. Derided by his former wife, who questions his paternal rights, the man decides to take the law into his own hands. He abducts his son, treating him as an emotional hostage, only to be tracked down by the boy’s stepfather and forced into a physical showdown.
The crisis of this family is an intimate drama that mirrors our 21st century civilization crises that has favored self-assertion over integration, competition over cooperation, expansion over conservation to create a world of “successful” individuals. But, this “development” has now reached an alarming stage; a crisis of social, economic, moral and spiritual dimensions.