Overview
A bold new work by Sue MacLaine about our cognitive capacity to process
traumatic experience and the ability of language to represent it. Winner
of a Total Theatre award for 'Innovation & Playing with Form' and
recommended for the British Council showcase at the Edinburgh Festival
2015. The play explores how possible the cognition and articulation of
traumatic and private experience is. A hymn to resilience, this personal
and political piece spars across the heard and the unheard, the spoken
and the unspoken, and contemplates what the act of trying to tell really
entails. Written in English and in British Sign Language, the two
languages and two scripts work both in opposition and in harmony to test
and stretch the capacities of language. Edition includes English as
well as British Sign Language script, and photos from the production.