Culture Watch: Daddy
An autobiographical confessional from Joel Bray.
Joel Bray is bringing his show Daddy to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Described as an autobiographical sugar-coated confessional, Bray mixes conversation, performance, and audience participation to explore the experience of identity, trauma and recovery - mining his own personal experiences as a queer First Nations man brought up in a fiercely working-class environment, someone who is neither white nor black enough, someone who falls between the cracks, someone who has Daddy issues.
Joel’s cravings for father and home leave him always wanting more. The short-lived sugar highs of childhood reminiscence and the excesses of queer adulthood and party hook-ups give way to the inevitable comedowns - before the cycle begins all over again.
Daddy will run at Summerhall from 6-31 August
Joel Bray in Daddy. Photos: Bryony Jackson.
Gareth Johnson