Event info

"Prisoner presents a world as he sees it.
Confined by an audience on all fronts, exposed on a bare stage, a eulogy turns into remembrance of battered truths in a world that isn't really interested in truths anymore. A story of love, murder and reality intertwined.

Benchi, the narrator’s cell mate and one of the two most powerful inmates in the prison takes Hila the social worker’s baby and raises it as if it were his own. From the toughest, meanest man in the prison yard the narrator gets a front row seat as he witnesses a breakdown unfold before his very eyes. Benchi is now the father. The narrator is the now the mother. They raise the baby, bring it food, change his diapers watch him take his first steps. The narrator finds himself in the centre of a psychotic break balancing between the rules of family life set by Benchi, the everyday harsh rules of prison life and his own battered victimised mind barely clinging to his own sanity.

The play is that of points of view and perceptions. The storyteller’s recap of events, his very grasp on reality changes as he goes back and forth through the events leading to the murder. It is a one-man’s eulogy of his partner but also the accounts of a man standing trial for murder and his accounts of how complicated relationships could be. A man standing alone surrounded to be judged by an “audience of his peers” with only his story to protect him.
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Reykjavik Fringe 2019