Paternal Instinct reunites Prout and Tulloch
ACTOR Boy-winning director Douglas Prout and playwright and composer David Tulloch have again joined forces for Paternal Instinct.
The production opens at the Pantry Playhouse in St Andrew on April 12 and is scheduled to run through to June 9.
The duo last collaborated to stage White Witch in 2010.
The producers note that at the core of Paternal Instinct is a heart-rending love story approached from perspectives seldom seen on the Jamaican stage.
“We have a classic troubled, on-again-off-again love affair between an ambitious young couple. This relationship is given another layer with intervention of a charming, straight-talking third wheel. What knits all three characters tightly together is their difference takes on morality, parenting and children,” notes writer Tulloch.
The Montego Bay-based playwright, who will play the role of a single father in the production, says his own desire to become a father one day inspired him to write the piece.
“Like me, there are some men who look forward to becoming a father and primarily that is the premise for writing Paternal Instinct. The concept, however, comes from my unusual presentations. Again I am daringly travelling on a road not often travelled.” he says.
