Absent or abusive fathers are a staple of British drama. As such, they are both an explanation for ferocious male violence and a metaphor of a paternal state which, in an age of austerity, seems ready to abandon the needy to their own devices. In Tash Fairbanks and Toby Wharton's punchy play, which is a remarkable collaboration between a woman born in 1948 and a man born in 1984, the consequences of a father's abando…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 10:56AM on January 5, 2012