Absent Fathers, Lost Sons by Guy Corneau

Author:Guy Corneau
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

THE DIRECTOR’S EPILOGUE

Well, folks, that’s the end of our show. It’s time to say goodbye to all these sons who are looking for their fathers and trying, sometimes desperately, to break out of their dominant mother complexes. In the past few weeks of working with these actors, I have developed a lot of affection for them. As I keep telling them, they don’t have to stop acting like this or like that, but they should start questioning their obsessive behaviors and their unthinking identifications with the characters they play. For each of them, the challenge is to break away from the script and to become a real man.

You may be wondering, “What would happen if the hero were no longer dominated by his mother complex? Would the theater have to close down for lack of actors? When the actors all become “men,” who then will perform for us? Who will be left to lead our heavy hearts down into the realm of death? If the seducers and eternal adolescents all succumb to an excessive dose of responsibility, who will be left to tempt us into doing or thinking what we don’t want to do or think? What a catastrophe it would be if all the drunks became sober and all the good boys stopped being nice!”

Have no fear. Even if psychoanalysis manages to release all these characters from their strange forms of imprisonment—which would take a very long time indeed at the rate things are going—the theater would not have to shut down. The heroes will always be heroes, and the seducers will always be seducers. Since the actors will no longer be ruled by their characters, however, and since they will be free now to live their own lives, they will be able to play their roles—when they choose to play them—with a lot more vigor and vitality. The heroes will be all the more courageous, and their brilliant exploits will win even greater applause. The seducers will go on charming us, and the homosexuals will continue making us ask questions. Granted, the drunks will no doubt drink less, and there will be fewer suicides; the celebration will be all the more joyous. Everyone will still wear his mask, but no one will be enslaved by it.

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