OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Bob Kelly 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Jeff Vandermeer

• Setting

  Ambergris, a fictional city

• Synopsis

  Dradin is a young missionary who has returned to the fictional city of Ambergris after a long and disastrous sojourn in the jungles. He finds himself alone, penniless and in the depths of despair, when he falls in love with the silhouette of an unknown woman in a window. Aided by a devious and untrustworthy thief named Dvorak, he attempts to woo the strange woman but it is the night of the Festival of the Freshwater Squid, when the city traditionally erupts in a paroxysm of violence, murder and mayhem and Dradin's search for love leads him into a fight for his life.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  4

• Female

  1

• Total

  5

• Cast Notes

  Female roles doubled

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  25 May 2013

• Producer

  Produced by Granary Theatre and Tribe Theatre

• Original Venue

  Granary Theatre
  

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme.