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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 Makhthons 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
Returning to the Blue Elephant following The Inhabitants of the Moon are Noses!/Diary of a Madman (2007), Steve Hennessys other plays include Moonshadow (Time Out Critics Choice) and the Lullabies of Broadmoor trilogy (casts a haunting spell as it weaves together lurid fantasy and harsh reality Paul Taylor, The Independent
Dates: Tuesday 15 June - Saturday 10 July
Time: 8:00 pm
Days of the week: Tuesday - Saturday
Ticket price: £10.00
£8.00 (concessions)
£7.00 (southwark residents)
Previews [£7]: Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 June
Post-show discussion: Wednesday 16 June
Stairway to Heaven by Steve Hennessy at The Blue Elephant Theatre in London, Greater London on Tuesday, 15 June 2010.
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