Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order: to turn the topics of parental depression and death into a comedy drama. It does not manage to pull off that tricky feat and ends up wavering between the sad, unsavoury and excruciating.
Even accounting for the fact that Lewis Cornay is a new writer, this hour-long production feels premature in its staging. A monologue by a daughter, Imi (Bebe Cave), about her dead father, its tepid comedy gets in the way of the drama so that we end up – criminally – feeling nothing for this grieving young character.
