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"I am a son;
that is, I have a mother."

For Your Own Good
by Pier Lorenzo Pisano
translated by Eleni Papaioannou
directed by Bethany Pitts
with Kristin Milward, Jack Parker,
Simon Rivers, Leo Wan, Helena Wilson

2016 - Winner of Riccione/Tondelli Award

from the motivation of the Jury of the the Riccione/Tondelli Award

"It could be yet another trivial play about family of which contemporary theatre churns out hundreds of specimens every year. It is, instead, a mature text with a project and a well-defined form. The author shows attention to psychology and the clash between generations. Above all, it reveals an excellent ability to touch on themes and pressing questions through a simple and direct writing style, sometimes almost "depersonalized". A resentful sensitivity runs through the entire text, which is contemplative but revealing and enlivened by comic elements. At the same time, it digs deeper into conflicts and anxieties to avoid flattening the subject-matter. The characters effectively combine humor and depth, allowing the audience to keep their distance from the issues. Pier Lorenzo Pisano finds a new angle to talk about the mystery of the bond between a mother and her child with surprising vitality".
 

A note from the playwright

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One day, a baby is born.

It is pure, intact: it knows nothing.

Then, he meets his parents. And he begins to learn things.

Maybe he starts out well, with feeding and everything, but after a while, very little, his parents do something wrong. They suddenly turn the light off, they turn the music up too loud, in short they make a mistake. He cries. And the avalanche begins.

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One mistake at a time, errors accumulate. And the child continues to learn.

He learns to scream, to throw food on the ground, to swear, to beat his classmates up, to play video poker, to drive in the wrong direction, and all because, one after the other, mistakes have accumulated, they have damaged him: he has become an adult, full of wrong choices. And he's ready to reproduce.

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This is the family.

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For your own good, is the story of a family.

Pier Lorenzo Pisano

about

A son returns home to face a difficult situation. His arrival triggers tragicomic family mechanisms, always jammed.

 

Returning to where you grew up is an immersion in your first identity: an old pair of shoes that you are fond of, that you would like to continue wearing, really, but no longer fits you, the big toe comes out and the heels hurt.

The figures that welcome you are always the same ones, perhaps a bit aged, mothers, fathers, brothers, uncles, grandparents, all wrapped up in cellophane, as if time had not passed, and it's up to us to unwrap them and burst the bubbles. But sometimes, under the layers, you discover that things are changing, even in that small universe of cuddles and guilt, so close yet inaccessible to the world, that you call your family.

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