Theatre: Doris Lessing's 'Briefing'

Press Release - Mercurial Productions - Tuesday 1st of April 2008

Directed by Avye Leventis.

Based on Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s Briefing for a Descent into Hell Just because people are breathing, it doesn't necessarily mean they are alive.

Our play centres on levels of awareness, and awakeness.

And on choices: whether it is more comfortable to continue living our lives the way we always have (even with the increasingly urgent feeling that something is missing), or take a risk in an attempt to change our perspective.

The Play
A man is brought into hospital with total amnesia. His doctors attempt to cure him and discover his true identity. But while he has no idea who or where he is, this patient is experiencing a vivid internal universe. This interior world becomes progressively more real than the hospital ward’s clinical surroundings.

What begins as a madman’s ramblings develops into a quest to re-discover something crucial that he has forgotten. We are left facing the possibility that everyone is asking the wrong questions. It may be less important to find out who he is, than what he is.

And why it is vital for mankind that he remembers the reason he is here.

Camden People’s Theatre
58-60 Hampstead Road, London, NW1 2PY
Tube: Warren Street, Euston, Euston Square

April 8th – 26th 2008, 8pm. Tuesday – Sunday (no Mondays)
Tickets £12; £10 (concessions)
Tickets and more information on www.cptheatre.co.uk

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