Bison and Sons
By Pauline Mol-
Translated by Rina Vergano(13 – 16 yrs)
Winner of 'Best Production for Children and Young People' at the Tron Awards, GlasgowPower, love and sibling rivalry are at the heart of Bison & Sons.
In a timeless forgotten back street, three brothers sit around in their dirty kitchen. Abandoned while their father pleads with the bank manager
to save the family business, they bicker, they taunt, they bully, they fight, they try to comfort each other, fantasizing that they are heroes
and fighting for their father’s chair.
Have these boys been abandoned? Will their father return? - hiding behind transparent macho behaviour, the three brothers’ jostle for the position
within the family and for the affections of a father whose presence is missed, but clearly felt. Brotherly love and competition switch places at high speed.
What emerges from Bison & Sons is a simultaneously harrowing yet comic exposure of sibling rivalry,
pushed to extremes by the breakdown of the relationship between a father and his sons.
Theatr Iolo brings the best of World Theatre to you with this award-winning play about power, love
and sibling rivalry translated by Bristol based Rina Vergano.
Bison & Sons is an award-winning play from the Netherlands which has toured to great acclaim throughout Europe.
Theatr Iolo successfully premiered this production in Wales in Spring 2001.
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