18 Apr Premier of play from the multi-award-winning playwright Georgie Bailey for ChewBoy Productions
Two living, breathing people face each other in a theatre space. One is here to help. The other is here for redemption.
These words that’ll linger like ghosts till the day I drop down dead is an experimental comi-tragedy, exploring the actions and words we wish we’d taken and said to those that have now died told through two actors dealing with the grief of a sibling who’s taken their life.
We follow a grieving sister and her friend putting on a play as a method of catharsis, playing out the final weeks of her deceased brother’s life. The interactions they shared, the words said, the conversations never had; opening a web of lies, wishful thinking and, ultimately, the harder side of grief which tears us from each other. The two characters constantly shift in their want to tell this story, and what is morally right in its telling; asking whether theatre is the best tool for therapy.
We hurtle through three stages of these characters attempting to work through their grief: The Imagined, which revolves around the depiction of what the remaining sibling wishes she’d said or done to make her brother stay, The Actual, what really happened between them, or so we think, and The Residue, which explores the person now left behind, and how they navigate their way through what’s left.
Says Georgie Bailey, writer of the play; ‘This production is written with personal experience of death at its heart and as its inspiration. It’s both comedic and dark, exploring the struggles many have of talking about grief.’
ChewBoy Productions is an award-winning multi-arts production company specialising in theatre, film, digital and working with new voices. It creates surrealist work which gives its audiences something to chew on long after they’ve experienced it; with each project being unique in utilising the skills of creatives from different backgrounds and specialities.
