“That’s the problem with leaving.

What is?

It deprives you of catharsis.

What’s catharsis?

It means ‘to cleanse with blood’.”

Eden explores the universal longing to leave behind or, better yet, to completely destroy the world you know and build something new in its place. Eight unnamed characters embark on a journey of ritual, cruelty and love, reliving old stories and inventing new ones. Their dialogue weaves between chorus and soliloquy the characters try on various roles – believer, butcher, leader, lover, traveller, prophet – in search of answers. Messianic and mesmerising, you're left asking: is wandering in circles quite the same thing as standing in place?

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Produced with the support of English Theatre Leipzig