This devised performance is based on „the real“ childhood of one of the members of the company and her and the company’s exploration into understanding her mother’s pathological lying that shaped her perception until adulthood and the ramifications that followed. The company reconstitutes and stage the enquiry they embarked on, trying to understand the motives behind the mother and her self-made identity, staging interviews with the mother’s old acquaintances and between themselves in order to peel the layers of her journey towards the ideal fictional character. As well as investigate the mother’s need to reconstitute her persona, the framework of the play also explores HOW and WHY we are compelled to tell stories, and how narratives are staged within a theatrical context.

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This is what the audience is told. However the plot of the play is not based on a true story.

 

The project is part of the company’s performative research project that started with the past play Phrases to be Used Upon... delving into new ways of theatrical story telling. Using the family as a symbol for the institution the play questions the power structures of society - the person who is telling the story is the one who has the power. And in a society ever suspicious of fake news and obsessed with the true story the company explores the theatrical

potential between original narrative and its representation.

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