Audience Responses

What a treat!

Brilliant!

I endorse everything (everything positive, that is) that's been said about this beautifully bizarre, dark, fantastical comedy. Tightly directed by Toni Morkel, the trio of actors deliver delightfully - and scarily. What it all means is another matter and has no doubt already provoked much post-show discussion. I just laughed a lot.

Without labels and with lots of little cutting edges like that pile of spent tuna tins. The pre-prandial tuna dance routine had us writhing in puddles in the aisles gasping for air. The multi-readings openness had us debating for hours ... well 20 minutes anyway ... without conclusion. Countess other delights.

The play is too self-indulgent. While we had a fun experience (we love the Alexander "vibe"), the play did not stimulate or provide any real though-provoking elements for discussion afterwards.

Everything I was expecting and more! Usually hype is just hype, and amazing reviews are not always lived up to... but this show truly surpassed my expectations. Wish the run was longer so I could bring more people to see it. Dark clowning at its best in South Africa!

Bleak, sexy, funny, disturbing as all hell. It's a play that's going to linger with me.

Wow. This was wonderful. The show blurb doesn't do it justice. It was gripping, funny and the narrative can function on many levels, including a satire on patriarchal crisis. It's easily the best show I've seen at Alexander Bar. It was thrilling. The performances were fabulous. I liked it when the actor made me jump in fright.

Thought provoking play , whimsical at times , threatening at times & heartbreaking - very well acted and creative technique of bringing father into the room.

Gutsy, visceral, ball-breaking theatre. Roberto Pombo performance is a tour de force.

2nd time watching Father Father Father, and enjoyed it as much, if not more. The intimacy of the Alex Bar gives a wonderful sense of claustrophobia that suits the piece and puts us right there with the smell of tuna and desperation. I wonder, though, if it didn't put some folk off seeing it for the first time? Because of the show's stylistic choices, it comes at you hard and fast in the space, and I saw some folk tense up, particularly when the frame was broken (intentionally?) at times and they feared they would be dragged into the action. For Alex Bar - you guys should be commended not only for supporting Joburg work so much, but continually building your audience base and being unafraid to stage experimental, darker work. There is clearly an audience for it in CT, so I hope this continues long into the future. Shot. Indie/Fringe theatre needs more and more of this support. For Father x3 - not sure if this is the right place to say allthis, but will anyway. Love the piece, love the vibe, love the delicious darkness, love the weirdness, love the commitment, love the chemistry between all 3, and love the way everyone buys into something that could fall flat on its face with self-consciousness. What I'm not fond of, and what stopped me giving it 5* is the ending. Been thinking about it, and the closest I can come is that there's such a wonderful set-up to the relationships, the desperation, the domination...and then, suddenly: wham bam, father returns, is tortured, one escapes, then wants back in, fin. It doesn't quite fit. It feels to me like some elaborate ritual/rite is being staged, and I wonder if it might not work better if the whole thing loops. Like Beckett, like Genet' "The Maids", etc. I think it's very clear that Sonja is dad - I don't think that reveal needs to happen. It seems to break the setup. Wouldn't it be creepier if the thing just starts again? Leave the audience wondering if they will ever break out of the rut. Just a thought. And possibly a minor one. But thought I'd jot it down. Keep on rocking, all you lovely people! Beeg love and respect

If I could rate to higher I would. Father Father Father is one of the most exciting things I have ever seen on the Alexander Bar stage (and I have seen a lot). It's exciting, ballsy, in your face brilliance. It was fun and terrifying and wonderful and grotesque and brilliant and awful and charming and horrifying and clever and strange and fucking everything.