God Lost

God Lost @ The Camden Fringe

20 & 21 August 2009 10.30 pm, The Etcetera Theatre


"Ten in a Bed create magic" – Fringe Report

The award-winning Ten in a Bed Theatre present God Lost, a double-bill of blackly comic new plays that explore loss, death, deceit and the afterlife.

In The Position, Mark Brown’s "smart writing with a deft comic touch" (The Stage) leads us into the byzantine netherworld of Michael. When he finds himself in an employment office being offered a job he never knew he had applied for, he is reticent to say the least. When he finds out that he is in fact dead and said job is to act as a guide for other recently deceased people, his enthusiasm does not increase. But he discovers through the people that he guides, it is not their journey that is important but his own. And through all the paperwork, bureaucracy and uncomfortable assignments, realisations occur. Some painfully, some naturally. And in the end acceptance is his for the taking.

The "Clever and neat writing" (Lost Festival Panel) of Mike Shephard’s Butcher’s Dozen is marked by wordplay, psychological sparring and cruelly ironic twists. Following the overthrow of a corrupt regime an idealistic young man makes contact with the manipulative former bureaucrat whom he believes can explain the circumstances of his fiancée’s disappearance. However, the truth is always far from his grasp as their relationship begins to form the heart of a web of dangerous obsession.

The two distinct chapters of God Lost are united by stark and affecting storytelling as well as a playful sense of the peverse that should leave the audience questioning, engaged but always entertained.

Other London dates will be added.

20 & 21 August 2009 10.30 pm, £7.50 all tickets

Bookings: 08444 77 1000 or www.ticketweb.co.uk

The Etcetera Theatre, 265 Camden High Street, London NW1 7BU

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