Virginia Repertory Theatre
At our intimate Theatre Gym space at 114 W. Broad St. (inside the November Theatre complex), Virginia Rep partners with area arts organizations, from donating the use of our venue, to co-producing productions.
By Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton
Hosted by Virginia Rep January 30 – February 16, 2025 At Theatre Gym, 114 West Broad St. in the November Theatre complex
Tickets are sold by Richmond Shakespeare
Now 80 years old, André was once a tap dancer. He lives with his daughter, Anne, and her husband, Antoine. Or was André an engineer, whose daughter Anne lives in London with her new lover, Pierre? The thing is, he is still wearing his pyjamas, and he can’t find his watch. He is starting to wonder if he’s losing control. Winner of the 2014 Molière award for France’s best play, The Father makes us see things as if through the confused eyes of André, as he struggles to make sense of a progressively befuddling world.
A play that constantly confounds expectations and works almost like a thriller, with a sinister Pinteresque edge…full of guile, particularly in the way it toys with time, yet is also simplicity itself, and is never tricksy. The Father constantly makes you question the truth and the nature of reality…an astonishingly unguarded play about the cruelties of love and the limits of patience, and the way child-parent relationships become inverted as old age creeps up and mugs us.
Alan Sader as Andrew in The Father