Performance Times
Friday 10 July – 7:00pm
Saturday 11 July- 3:30pm & 7:00pm
Someone has a recurring dream. It’s a bit weird. There are animals that look and sound like people, and there’s a butcher, killing people. We’re stuck in the dream with them, watching it as they experience a past they don’t belong to but which wants to belong to them; it’s forcing it’s way inside, so that their future looks like the past. It’s absurd, funny, unsettling, horrifying, and it feels like a circle – going round and round and back to the start again, with no promise of escape…
PYC 11-15 and PTYC 14-28 present (Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible, Terrible Past by Simon Longman, a play about the expectations of life and the circularity of human existence.
(Circle Dreams Around) The Terrible, Terrible Past was commissioned and first produced by National Theatre Connections 2023.
Please note:
This production will be performed ‘in the round’ with seating around the stage space on the ground floor, and additional seating in the auditorium gallery. Seating on the ground floor will be sold first; the additional seating will be available to purchase once the ground floor allocation has sold out.
Content warnings:
Strong Language
Several scenes of threat and violence
A brief reference to substance abuse
One brief, mildly sexually explicit reference
The following are seen within the context of a dream: A dead body covered in blood, and weapons including an axe, a cleaver, and a bolt gun.