‘the need for ‘passionate attachment’ to provide for a minimum of being implies that the subject qua 'abstract negativity' - the primordial gesture of dis-attachment from its environment - is already there. Fantasy is thus a defence-formation against the primordial abyss of dis-attachment, of the loss of (the support in) being, which 'is' the subject itself.'
Created from verbatim interviews with families on an estate in France, Joël Pommerat’s play exposes the realities of parent/child relationships and the raw emotions that frequently go unspoken. Pommerat is one of France’s most highly regarded playwrights but his work is little known in the UK. Philosophical and spare, This Child reveals how French theatre continues to differ from its English counterpart.