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Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)Lost Dog
Malvern Cube
Sunday 10th November 7.30pm
75 minutes
Tickets: £12
A one man staging of Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost and not like whatever came into your head when you read the first bit of that sentence. Combining theatre, comedy and movement this is a journey through the story of the creation of everything, condensed into 75 minutes. There is a possibility that God made everything because he was terrified of doing nothing.
A show for anyone who has ever created anything (a child, a garden, a paper aeroplane) and then had to watch that wonderful thing spiral out of control.
The comedy is divine, but the images of love and loss are achingly human ★★★★★ The Independent
‘A heavenly new take on Milton’ ★★★★★ Evening Standard
About Lost Dog
Who we are:
Artistic Director: Ben Duke
Executive Producer: Daisy Drury
Producer: Emma Evans
“We began with an idea and we continue to wrestle with it, to say what needs to be
said and dance the rest.”
Lost Dog is an award-winning dance/theatre company based in rural East Sussex and led by director/choreographer Ben Duke. They aim to create and tour excellent shows widely and well - with consideration for the planet, care for our staff and performers and generosity towards our audiences. They treasure and celebrate the temporary community that is created when people share time, space and air in a theatre - whether that theatre is a village hall or a major metropolitan opera house.
Their works on stage defy categorisation - ‘this company...constantly walks a tightrope between opposites. They create dance, they create theatre; they use words, they use dance; they offer wisdom, they offer foolishness; they make you
spring up in hope and they make you slump in despair. They are one of the most fascinating theatre companies around.’ (The Observer, Feb 2022) – but at their heart there is usually a familiar story or (often venerated) classic text which is retold, re-imagined or reinvented through words, music and movement. Ben Duke has a talent for finding the ordinary in the extraordinary, making great works entirely relatable to modern audiences, seeing tragedy and comedy in the everyday.
Their shows offer audiences an evening of genuine, laugh out loud entertainment while quietly (sometimes loudly) breaking their hearts.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Malvern Cube, Worcester, United Kingdom
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