A talented cast brings this interesting story line exploring migrant families to life
Dad Is Not My Friend delves into the dynamics among three youths and their migrant parents. Struggling with the dichotomy of honouring tradition while assimilating into their birth country, they stumble upon a formidable AI with the capacity to profoundly alter their destinies. Echoing the authoritarian grip of their families, fuelled by apprehension and aspirations for fresh starts, the AI’s potential for surveillance and manipulation parallels their familial control mechanisms
Fresh, contemporary, insightful. Dad Is Not My Friend is a very well reflected piece of art. A combination of humour, sing-along, musical, incorporating a very real digital-human interaction, while at the same time, addressing the complex real global technological issues which society is not discussing enough. Adding to this mix of flavour, the play also shows how contemporary digital trends also impact differently current inequalities, social class and race, nowadays.
The play resonated strongly with current technology trends, such as artificial intelligence, highlighting the significant power it holds in our lives now . The way it addressed these themes was very refreshing, but also, highly relevant and thought-provoking. The cast was incredibly talented showing their multiple creative skills throughout the play. Kudos to the musical performances throughout the play, which felt quite open-hearted, and musically neat.
Dad Is Not My Friend was an astonishing performance, leaving a open-ended conclusion for the audience to interpret, and create their own closing scenes.