In the manner Marguerite Duras, Simone de Beauvoir, Annie Ernaux and Didier Eribon, Edouard Louis writes from his personal experience. His two almost biographical novels: The End of Eddy (2014) and History of Violence (2016), have moved many of his readers.  For this play, he responded to the invitation of stage director and performer Stanislas Nordey, to write a text to be spoken and to be read, a work for theatre. 

Who Killed my Father is a soliloquy. A man visits his father’s flat and what he sees, sitting on a chair, is a used body, that of a certain working class from an underprivileged region of present day France. He speaks and remembers episodes from his childhood in an attempt to explain how his still young father, got into such a sorry state.  A literary shift in which, the political meets the intimate and tells the story of the bodies of men.