A son trying to reconstruct his family.
A performance about a family reunion.
A live family re-construction.
After many years of separations from his real family he attempts to recreate a family re-union, that he never managed to face in reality, so he invites a group of people to become the members of his family, to re-enact that moment. The audience will be placed in each of the different family roles. They will be asked and lead by the performer (the son) to re-enact different episodes of a happy family. His relationship with his father, his mother and his aunty will be adjusted or manipulated to his necessities. In this fictional set up, there are gaps and lapses of memory and that’s where the autobiographical reality of the performer lies.
The idea is to create an intimate performance, that works a a family re-union and where the audience shares and participates on the fictional construction of a family and simultaneously is the reality of the autobiographic identity of the the son (Pedro Antunes), as they (the audience) are placed and are made to feel a family persona (the father, the mother, the aunty or the uncle) and this will initiate a process of discover of the real motivations behind the experiment.
The Missing Parts is a exploration into my relationship with my family, as well, as my decision from being away from them, a necessity to lie about my missing parts, a necessity of a family to cover up the son that is missing , that is away. How a social mechanism works without a part? how can they replace that missing part? What are the fictional stories that live inside his mind to replace the absent father and mother that is away?
Created by Pedro Antunes
Direction and Staging by Hugo Caroca and Tania Leonardo
Performed by Pedro Antunes and Vera Soares
Presented at Camden People’s Theatre & Etcetera Theatre.
I enjoyed very much the show, delightful performance. Intelligent, funny and dynamic. I would love to watch it again.
fucking braw.
Good good. But the venue not so good.
As a moment of fever, the “Missing Parts” is located on the edge which separates the fiction and the reality, the tragedy and the comedy. Hilarious and Sad it is a lost moment in the time! A moment of despair when you unceasing search for what you secretly know you never will find… and you keep searching, and you keep searching, searching, and searching…
The sunday special evening at the people’s theatre turned out well for you and the audience received it very well. I have been thinking about your show over this week – the next day that I woke up I felt very happy to feel part of your imaginery family – there was an invisible thread connecting me and it was a good feeling to have an attachment with similar people; I like your idea of displacement theory because for me living away from my home of origin I am still happy to enjoy all things new and being involved with a group. Again thank you for that.
i enjoyed this performance a lot! So unexpected and funny and quite magical.
thanks
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