The Father

 

The Father, Cambridge Arts Theatre, 2015.

Cast: Kenneth Cranham, Claire Skinner, Nicholas Gleaves, Kirsty Oswald, Jim Sturgeon, Rebecca Charles.

Writer: Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton

Director: James MacDonald

Remember when Florian was the hot young thing and one play after another appeared? This is the only one I saw, and I didn't see the film it was made into (assuming it would be both upsetting and not as good as the play).

The main thing I remember about this is the clever staging. In each scene a piece of the set vanished to physically demonstrate the father's failing memory. Clever.