Forthcoming Productions

New For Summer 2010!

In Association with Fallen Angel Theatre and Simon James Collier

Stairway To Heaven

By

Steve Hennessy

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?

The London premiere of this darkly funny, strangely contemporary, intense and visionary journey to another world …

20 Performances

Tues 15th June - Sat 10th July 2010

(Tues. - Sat.)

8.00 p.m.

Tickets £10 / £8

Performance Length approximately 60 minutes

The Blue Elephant Theatre, 59a Bethwin Road, Camberwell, London SE5 0XT

tkts Tel. 0207 701 0100, or online at

www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk

For more information on productions, as well as details of our complimentary ticket offers to people using and working in mental health, drug, alcohol and HIV services, contact the Project Co - ordinator Steve Hennessy via this website or on the office numbers, 0117 9049457/ 07790 980688