Father! Father! Burning Bright
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Midgley is resolved not to give his father one more chance to be let down by him. When the old man is taken into the Intensive Care unit, Midgley decides he will do the decent thing and sit beside the bed until the end comes. But even unconscious, his father seems able to make his son miserable, and the bedside vigil turns into a grim and often funny contest of wills. Set in 1970s Yorkshire, the play follows this waiting game and the long history of grievance between the two men. It is a sharp look at family obligation, resentment and the polite hypocrisies of respectable life.
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