A Voyage Round My Father
by John Mortimer

Name: A Voyage Round My Father
Brand: John Mortimer
SKU: 9780573014819
Rating: 3.84 (1 reviews)

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Highlights

Female

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Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers have mixed feelings about this play. While some find it amusing and well-written, others feel that it hasn't aged well and lacks the charm of Mortimer's other works. Despite criticisms, the humorous aspects resonate with many.

Deliciously funnyWell-written dialogueEngaging father-son dynamicsHasn't aged wellSome lines feel outdated

Synopsis

There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden.

The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramatic and really not so comical as at first glance.

We see the Son in his childhood with a friend named Reigate and a teacher named Noah, then as a man who has been told all he is meant to feel sudden freedom growing up, the end of dependence the step into the sunlight when no one is taller than you and you're in no one else's shadow.

Lonely.