Home Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep

Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep

Five insomniacs try to make it through the night. From dusk to dawn, they struggle with a crisis in their lives which they must resolve by morning. Increasingly conscious of their shortening futures and lengthening pasts, they fill their nights with distracting activities, desperate sleep techniques, evaluations of their lives, delusions, fears, panics and utter foolishness as they prepare to face the day. Five Characters in Search of a Good Night’s Sleep was first performed by ViSiBLE Theatre Ensemble at Southwark Playhouse, London, in 2022, in a production directed by Mike Alfreds. It was devised and written by Mike Alfreds with Sonja Linden and members of the company.

Publish Date & Country

April 27, 2022, UK

Role

Documentation, research and development stage

Project Type

Autobiography; ageing; R&D

Producing Company

Visible Theatre; Southwark Playhouse, London

Photographs © Liam Bessell