MY SON & HEIR by Search Party
My Son & Heir is
an anarchic celebration of the everyday heroism of parenthood, set amongst a
never-ending mess of plastic, flashing-beeping, bubble-blowing chaos.
Search Party are parents, they have a son born in the same
year as ‘Baby Cambridge’, and that’s where the similarities end. My Son & Heir confronts the
spectacle of the ‘New Royals’ and their strategic attempts to appear just like us. In a playful examination
of the relentlessness of raising children, and the guilt-ridden one-upmanship
of mainstream baby culture, Search Party consider what sort of man their son and heir will become.
This new studio performance is part of Search Party’s Growing Old With You series, a life-long
performance project exploring their changing perspective of age, as they grow
old together.
My Son & Heir was commissioned by the Parlour Showrooms, Bristol (UK), made with
support from the University of Chichester, (UK).
Search Party are associate
artists of The Point, Eastleigh (UK)
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