General Admission £26 | Complimentary for Patrons
FOUR FATHERS
Four writers. Four perspectives. Fathers and sons.
This Black History Month UK, Monolithic Theatre presents FOUR FATHERS at Ladbroke Hall, an interdisciplinary evening of theatre, poetry and photography exploring fatherhood across generations, cultures and identities.
FOUR FATHERS asks what we inherit from our fathers, what their presence or absence leaves behind, and what changes when sons become fathers themselves.
Isaiah Weekes, Monolithic Theatre’s resident writer, responds to the work and legacy of James Baldwin, exploring Black fatherhood, masculinity and inheritance.
British Pakistani writer and poet Haroon Khan examines fatherhood from both sides of the relationship, as a child and as a father, exploring family, culture, love and separation.
Award-winning Nigerian British writer Yomi Sode draws from his poetry to journey from Black boyhood into fatherhood, confronting masculinity, intimacy, vulnerability and the new fears that emerge when another life becomes your responsibility.
Sode’s debut collection Manorism, published by Penguin, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize. His work has been presented by Southbank Centre, Almeida Theatre, Roundhouse, Battersea Arts Centre, BBC Radio 3 and Chineke! Orchestra.
Completing the four is Roger Robinson, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for A Portable Paradise. Robinson’s work has been commissioned by institutions including the BBC, National Portrait Gallery, V&A, National Trust and Theatre Royal Stratford East, where he was an Associate Artist.
THE EXHIBITION
Alongside the performances, acclaimed photographer Eddie Otchere curates a dedicated exhibition exploring fatherhood through photography, archive and personal testimony.
At its centre, FATHER, a photographic body of work accompanied by first-person text, introduces another perspective on the relationship between father and child.
The first father we encounter is not a character.
He is someone’s father. Together, theatre, poetry and photography transform the personal into a wider conversation about fathers, sons, memory and inheritance.
