{"id":31515,"date":"2024-04-17T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asphalt-festival.de\/en\/?post_type=events&p=31515"},"modified":"2024-06-25T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T15:00:05","slug":"our-son","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.asphalt-festival.de\/en\/events\/2024\/our-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Son"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I love you <\/span>
the way <\/span>
you are”<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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For many years there were things that remained unspoken of between mother, father and son. Now the homosexual son has grown up, has moved as far away as possible, but decides to visit the family home. After all, he loves and needs his parents and hopes that this time they can communicate honestly with each other. The parents also love their son, and they would love him even more if they only knew what exactly the mistake was, what the reason was and who really is to blame for the fact that their child is not “like the rest of the normal world” …<\/p>\n

“Our Son” is an incredibly clever, intimate, poetic, humorous and sometimes tragic play about parents who simply cannot find a way to accept the identity of their gay son. The 30-year-old Croatian director Patrik Lazić, one of the most talented theatre producers of the younger generation, developed the autobiographically influenced play for the Belgrade production house Heartefact. By subtly interweaving fiction and reality, Lazić shares one individual`s process of emancipation with the audience. Situations full of comedy, irony, jokes, injuries, fears, missed opportunities, astonishment and unexpected insights emerge. The premiere took place in the unusual setting of a private flat in Belgrade. The audience and the actors sat in the same living room, smelling the soup and lasagne that the mother served her son. However, in the adaptation for the theatre stage, which will be shown at the asphalt Festival, the audience surrounds the actors on three sides, which therefore also conveys a similar intimacy.<\/p>\n

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