Stairway to Heaven

Archive Listings for Stairway to Heaven

T0165531898 (BLUEELE10) Producer Stepping Out. Producer Fallen Angel Theatre. Producer Simon James Collier. Director Chris Loveless. Design Ann Stiddard. Costume Ann Stiddard. Lighting Chris Lince. Performer Nicholas Cass-Beggs. Performer James French. Performer James Ronan. Performer Matthew Ward.
15 Jun 10 to 10 Jul 10	The Blue Elephant Theatre, Inner London :: V1259993386 listing details L01106201832

Details

Play :: Cheops’ Pyramid. Egypt. 2,700 B.C. The biggest, most terrifying and dangerous construction site the world has ever known. A hundred thousand men will haul two and a half million limestone blocks weighing a total of six million tons up a building the size of a skyscraper using nothing but human muscle. On his first day working on the pyramid, one young man has to adapt quickly to a new life in a work gang where intense friendships and hatreds are forged in a feverish furnace of desert heat, brutal humour, backbreaking work, horrific accidents, drink, sex and death. And as the ghosts of dead workmates and visions of Amun Ra the Sun God elbow their way into Makhthon’s dreams, something strange is happening just out of sight, on the higher ledges of the pyramid, where the workers are never allowed. Where does the stairway really lead?

Author

Steve Hennessy