The Good Family by Joakim Pirinen (translated by Gregory Motton) and The Khomenko Family Chronicles by Natalia Vorozhbit (translated by Sasha Dugdale) THE FAMILY PLAYS, a double bill of new international plays, will open in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court through 21 December, as part of the theatre's Autumn International Playwrights season.
The double bill will consist of The Good Famiily, by Swedish playwright Joakim Pirinen, translated by Gregory Motton, and The Khomenko Family Chronicle, by Ukrainian Natalia Vorozhbit, translated by Sasha Dugdale.
Both plays will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, with design by Ultz and lighting by Trevor Wallace. Full cast: Lewis Lempereur-Palmer, Daisy Lewis, Harry Lloyd, Samantha Spiro and Jeremy Swift. The first play in the double-bill – The Good Family – is a flat-packed comedy from the country that brought you Ikea.
The weather is wonderful, the sky is cloudless and Lasse is deliriously happy. His son is also over the moon, as are his wife and daughter. They are comfortably off, sexually satisfied, liberal, liberated and pretty well perfect.
Everything is wonderful and probably always will be. And it's incredible how interesting – and funny – perfection can be. In the second play in the double bill – The Khomenko Family Chronicle – young Lyosha lies in hospital counting the days to his next birthday. His parents relate stories about the world outside and from their family history. Stories marked by the explosion of Chernobyl, and 11 September 2001.
The Khomenko Family Chronicle is a light-hearted and touching family portrait pitched against the darker milestones of global history. This is the British premiere of The Good Family and The Khomenko Family Chronicle. -- royalcourttheatre.com
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